2021
DOI: 10.3390/su13020516
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A Social-Ecological Systems Understanding of Drivers of Degradation in the Tsitsa River Catchment to Inform Sustainable Land Management

Abstract: Understanding the interactions of the social and biophysical drivers of land degradation is crucial for developing adaptive management actions for future sustainability. A research-praxis project, the ‘Tsitsa Project’ (TP), applies a social-ecological systems (SES) approach where researchers, natural resource managers, and residents collaborate to support sustainable livelihoods and improved natural resource management for the degraded Tsitsa River Catchment (TRC) in South Africa. A system diagramming approach… Show more

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“…In highly erodible, hydrologically variable and communally owned areas such as the Gqukunqa and the lower parts of the Inxu and Tsitsa River catchments, landscape restoration and rehabilitation requires not only a better understanding of the relevant biophysical processes, but also collaborative approaches to land management involving communities, researchers, and practitioners (Blake et al, 2021; Itzkin et al, 2021). Poverty has a recognized impact on land use and management: communally developed and implemented strategies such as grazing and fire management that improve and sustain rural livelihoods would also improve landscape conditions, reducing erosion and suspended sediment transport (Rowntree et al, 2018).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In highly erodible, hydrologically variable and communally owned areas such as the Gqukunqa and the lower parts of the Inxu and Tsitsa River catchments, landscape restoration and rehabilitation requires not only a better understanding of the relevant biophysical processes, but also collaborative approaches to land management involving communities, researchers, and practitioners (Blake et al, 2021; Itzkin et al, 2021). Poverty has a recognized impact on land use and management: communally developed and implemented strategies such as grazing and fire management that improve and sustain rural livelihoods would also improve landscape conditions, reducing erosion and suspended sediment transport (Rowntree et al, 2018).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Berkaitan dengan pemanfaatan bendungan menurut (Ismail, 2014) dalam penelitiannya menyatakan bahwa sistem pengelolaan bendungan secara signifikan mengarah pada aktivitas manusia dalam pemanfaatan dan pemeliharaan bendungan tersebut dimana daerah tangkapan air justru dijadikan sebagai tempat pembuangan sampah dari aktivitas manusia yang disebabkan oleh konflik penggunaan lahan yang terjadi disekitar daerah tangkapan air. Hal tersebut kemudian di dukung penelitian yang dilakukan oleh (Itzkin, 2021) pada penelitiaannya mengemukakan bahwa perubahan tata guna dan pengelolaan lahan pada kawasan yang dikelola yang direncanakan dengan hati-hati dapat menghasilkan manfaat ganda untuk memperbaiki kondisi lanskap sungai dan menghasilkan mata pencaharian berkelanjutan.…”
Section: Hasil Dan Pembahasan Implementasi Peraturan Gubernur Daerah ...unclassified
“…There are a number of factors that result in increased sediment in the Tsitsa River (Itzkin et al, 2021). These include highly erodible duplex soils, a high rural population density in the former Transkei homeland, unsustainable land use practices including lack of grazing controls and abandoned cultivated land, and increased landscape connectivity due to gully erosion.…”
Section: Study Area and Site Selectionmentioning
confidence: 99%