Impact of protected forests on rural household fuel tree planting and deforestation: Chiro District, Ethiopia

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dc.contributor.advisorChisholm, Nicholas G.en
dc.contributor.advisorEnright, Patricken
dc.contributor.authorTadese, Admasu Bogale
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-27T11:59:33Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.submitted2016
dc.description.abstractThis study aims at exploring the potential impact of forest protection intervention on rural households’ private fuel tree planting in Chiro district of eastern Ethiopia. The study results revealed a robust and significant positive impact of the intervention on farmers’ decisions to produce private household energy by growing fuel trees on their farm. As participation in private fuel tree planting is not random, the study confronts a methodological issue in investigating the causal effect of forest protection intervention on rural farm households’ private fuel tree planting through non-parametric propensity score matching (PSM) method. The protection intervention on average has increased fuel tree planting by 503 (580.6%) compared to open access areas and indirectly contributed to slowing down the loss of biodiversity in the area. Land cover/use is a dynamic phenomenon that changes with time and space due to anthropogenic pressure and development. Forest cover and land use changes in Chiro District, Ethiopia over a period of 40 years was studied using remotely sensed data. Multi temporal satellite data of Landsat was used to map and monitor forest cover and land use changes occurred during three point of time of 1972,1986 and 2012. A pixel base supervised image classification was used to map land use land cover classes for maps of both time set. The result of change detection analysis revealed that the area has shown a remarkable land cover/land use changes in general and forest cover change in particular. Specifically, the dense forest cover land declined from 235 ha in 1972 to 51 ha in 1986. However, government interventions in forest protection in 1989 have slowed down the drastic change of dense forest cover loss around the protected area through reclaiming 1,300 hectares of deforested land through reforestation program up to 2012.en
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dc.identifier.citationTadese, A. B. 2016.Impact of protected forests on rural household fuel tree planting and deforestation: Chiro District, Ethiopia. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3120
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dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.rights© 2016, Admasu Bogale Tadese.en
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dc.subjectForest protection interventionen
dc.subjectDeforestationen
dc.subjectPSMen
dc.subjectChiroen
dc.subjectRemote Sensingen
dc.subjectGISen
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dc.titleImpact of protected forests on rural household fuel tree planting and deforestation: Chiro District, Ethiopiaen
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
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