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Soil hydrological impacts and climatic controls of land use and land cover changes in the Upper Blue Nile (Abay) basin (Hardcover)
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Soil hydrological impacts and climatic controls of land use and land cover changes in the Upper Blue Nile (Abay) basin (Hardcover)
Series: IHE Delft PhD Thesis Series
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Human beings strongly depend on the sustainable availability of
resources, such as food, water and energy. The continued supply of
these resources can only be assured by sustainable land uses but
these are easily threatened by inappropriate human activities.
Human behavior is intermingled with hydrological, biogeochemical,
atmospheric and ecological processes through land use and land
cover change (LULCC). LULCC is a locally pervasive and globally
significant environmental trend and has become a process of
paramount importance to the study of global environmental change.
This thesis investigates LULCC and its links with soil hydrology,
soil degradation and climate variability through combining results
from fieldwork, laboratory work and Remote Sensing. Seasonal,
inter-annual and broad timescale land transitions are analyzed for
a robust identification of biophysical change. The determinants of
LULCC are determined using spatially explicit statistical modelling
of most systematic land transitions. This thesis explores soil
hydrological impacts of LULCC for a better soil water management.
The thesis further explores the climatic factors leading to the
observed trends in vegetated land cover for improved understanding
of the link between climate and carbon fixation and water use by
vegetation.
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