Spatiotemporal Land Useland Cover Change Driving Forces And Consequences In Ameya Woreda Central Ethiopia

Understanding of the land use/ land cover change (LULCC) has paramount importance forrnsustainable development and setting out the strategies of natural resource management. Thernpresent study illustrates the spatiotemporal land use/ land cover changes, driving forces andrnconsequences taking place in Ameya Woreda, Central, Ethiopia. Qualitative data were used torninvestigate the causes and effects of land use/ land cover change. Landsat satellite imageries ofrnthree different periods, i.e., Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) of 1986, 2001 and 2016 werernacquired from Global Land Cover Facility Site (GLCF) and earth explorer site (USGS) andrnquantify the LULC changes that has taken the Ameya Woreda from 1986 to 2016 over a period ofrn30 years. Supervised classification methodology has been employed using maximum likelihoodrntechnique of ERDAS 2014Software. The images of the study area were categorized into fiverndifferent LULCC classes namely vegetation, cultivated land, bare land, grass land andrnsettlement. The results revealed that during the last three decades, cultivated and settlementrnlands have increased by 21.1% and 0.91% while vegetation, bare and grass lands have decreasedrnby 11.9%, 2.6% and 7.4% respectively. As the study explored population growth, expansion ofrnagricultural land, demand for fuel wood and construction materials and charcoal, andrninefficiency of natural resource and land management system were the main causes of LULCC at woreda and kebele level. Whereas, forest degradation, Loss of plant’s and animal’s species, land degradation, hydrological impact and shortage of animal feeding were the main consequences of land use/ land cover change.rnKeywords: Land use/Land cover, driving forces, consequence, GIS, Remote sensing

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