Land-use change and its socio-environmental impact in Eastern Ethiopia's highland

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 757-768

  Meshesha, Derege Tsegaye ^a   Tsunekawa, Atsushi ^a   Tsubo, Mitsuru ^a,d   Ali, Syed Ahmad ^b   Haregeweyn, Nigussie ^a,c  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alemaya; Image classification; Lake retreat; Land degradation; Land use change; Satellite image

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897839766     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0535-2     Document Type: Article

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