Land use land cover change and the resilience of social-ecological systems in a sub-region in South west Cameroon

Ewane, Ewane Basil

doi:10.1007/s10661-021-09077-z

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“…In particular, conversion of forest to agricultural land use is not explicitly excluded in the simple management plan of CF in Cameroon and fuel wood collection and illegal timber extraction are highly prevalent [25,21,29,30]. Thus, agricultural and timber exploitation activities are by far the most important economic benefits of local communities at the expense of biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in CF [9] and other forest management types in Cameron [14,15,31,32].…”

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“…This is such that changes in the social-ecological system can be qualitatively associated with local institutional perceptions of the institutional and governance systems of CF. Other studies have incorporated land use and land cover change quantitative data with stakeholder perceptions qualitative data to better understand changes in social-ecological systems in a sub-region in Cameroon [14,15] and in rural Brazil and France [16]. No study in Cameroon has attempted to develop a link between government legal recognition and protection of CF rights, government intervention and forest loss in CF with reference to governmentmanaged forest types to the best of my knowledge, based on available web literature.…”

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Forest Governance Effectiveness of Community- and Government-managed Forests in Cameroon

Ewane

2022

IJECC

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Effective implementation of forest governance principles such as transparency, participation, accountability, coordination, capacity, user rights protection and security driven by positive government interventions are instrumental for sustainable forest management. The study used satellite-derived data to explore forest loss in community forest (CF) and government-managed forest in Cameroon from 2001 to 2014. The study also examined the extent to which community forest rights are legally recognised and protected and how government interventions undermine or promote CF management effectiveness in Cameroon. The rationale was to understand the forest outcome of different forest management approaches with varied user rights and management objectives. This is considering that community forest managers have been seen as better managers of forests than government agencies, if their full rights are well recognised and protected. We used semi-structured open-ended questionnaires, followed by focus group interviews with CF management institutions and document review for data collection. Forest loss showed significant increasing trends and was higher in CF than in other forest management types from 2001 to 2014. Stakeholder perceptions of CF rights and government intervention or actions varied between CF management institutions. Community forest rights such as rights to full ownership and control, full management, unlimited duration, alienation, and due process and compensation are not legally recognised and/or protected in community forestry in Cameroon, producing negative forest outcomes. Negative government interventions such as imposing excessive bureaucratic obstacles and initial financial investment in the processing of application files for CF applications and commercial user rights of timber harvesting, colluding with local elites, individuals and corrupt municipal and administrative authorities, and retaining full administrative ownership and control of CF land and resources, also produces negative forest outcomes. The non- recognition and protection of higher level CF rights and excessive negative government interventions in CF management contributes to undermining community’s willingness and readiness to prevent deforestation activities and voluntary engagement in conservation activities involving tree planting and management for long term community benefits. Therefore, recognising, strengthening and protecting all the CF rights proposed by the Rights and Resources Initiative and avoiding negative government interventions in CF management are helpful strategies in achieving the expected conservation and local development objectives of CF in Cameroon and in the Congo basin region.

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Forest Governance Effectiveness of Community- and Government-managed Forests in Cameroon

Ewane

2022

IJECC

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“…Land use and land cover changes are some of the key factors influencing the hydrological regime of any area [ 27 ]. The driving forces behind the land use land cover changes are uncontrolled population growth, high rate of urbanization, and agricultural expansion/contraction on spatial scales [ [28] , [29] , [30] , [31] ]. Land use and land cover changes are directly or indirectly linked with human activities [ 32 , 33 ], and could create an impact on the climatic condition.…”

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Exploring the nexus between land use land cover (LULC) changes and population growth in a planned city of islamabad and unplanned city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Kamran¹,

Khan²,

Khayyam³

et al. 2023

Heliyon

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“…The challenges stem from an interplay of production factors such as land, income, market access, and prevailing climate conditions (Giller et al 2021). Different from developed regions, unsustainable land-use practices such as charcoal burning, illegal encroachments, overgrazing, and relaxed enforcement of the law encompass the prevalent drivers of forestland, grassland, and wetland losses (Baldyga et al 2008;Ewane 2021;Mwangi et al 2020;Nakalembe et al 2017). Consequently, these losses induce massive cropland conversions that have severe implications for ecosystem service provision (Song and Deng 2017), hydrological balances (Baldyga et al 2008), and food production (Hoque et al 2020).…”

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Modelling cropland expansion and its drivers in Trans Nzoia County, Kenya

Kipkulei

Bellingrath-Kimura

Lana

et al. 2022

Model. Earth Syst. Environ.

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Population growth and increasing demand for agricultural production continue to drive global cropland expansions. These expansions lead to the overexploitation of fragile ecosystems, propagating land degradation, and the loss of natural diversity. This study aimed to identify the factors driving land use/land cover changes (LULCCs) and subsequent cropland expansion in Trans Nzoia County in Kenya. Landsat images were used to characterize the temporal LULCCs in 30 years and to derive cropland expansions using change detection. Logistic regression (LR), boosted regression trees (BRTs), and evidence belief functions (EBFs) were used to model the potential drivers of cropland expansion. The candidate variables included proximity and biophysical, climatic, and socioeconomic factors. The results showed that croplands replaced other natural land covers, expanding by 38% between 1990 and 2020. The expansion in croplands has been at the expense of forestland, wetland, and grassland losses, which declined in coverage by 33%, 71%, and 50%, respectively. All the models predicted elevation, proximity to rivers, and soil pH as the critical drivers of cropland expansion. Cropland expansions dominated areas bordering the Mt. Elgon forest and Cherangany hills ecosystems. The results further revealed that the logistic regression model achieved the highest accuracy, with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.96. In contrast, EBF and the BRT models depicted AUC values of 0.86 and 0.77, respectively. The findings exemplify the relationships between different potential drivers of cropland expansion and contribute to developing appropriate strategies that balance food production and environmental conservation.

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Land use land cover change and the resilience of social-ecological systems in a sub-region in South west Cameroon

Cited by 21 publications

References 39 publications

Forest Governance Effectiveness of Community- and Government-managed Forests in Cameroon

Forest Governance Effectiveness of Community- and Government-managed Forests in Cameroon

Exploring the nexus between land use land cover (LULC) changes and population growth in a planned city of islamabad and unplanned city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Modelling cropland expansion and its drivers in Trans Nzoia County, Kenya

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