LANDSCAPE AS A MIRROR OF DEVELOPMENT – UTU GEOGRAPHERS IN TANZANIA

Nora Fagerholm & Niina Käyhkö

Department of Geography and Geology

University of Turku

nora.fagerholm@utu.fi, niina.kayhko@utu.fi

Africa at the Universities of Turku/Åbo 23.10.2012

http://www.sci.utu.fi/projects/maantiede/Zanzibar/

CHANGING LAND USE AND FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL ADAPTATION STRATEGIES IN

ZANZIBAR, TANZANIA

INFORMATION OF THE STATE AND CHANGING FOREST

RESOURCES

Physical

forces

Cultural forces

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL

DYNAMICS IN LANDSCAPE SYSTEM

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DATA SETS

DESCRIBING

LANDSCAPES

AND FORESTS

SOCIO-ECONOMIC VALUES AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL

LAND USES OF THE FORESTS

DIGITAL GIS MODELS

OF LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT

(2010-2013)

SPATIAL DATA SETS REPRESENTING LCLU PATTERNS

time

T5

1930’s 1952-53 1977-78 1989-90 2004-05

T4 T3 T2 T1

1985

Scale /level

of detail

SPATIO- TEMPORAL DATABASE OF LAND COVER AND LAND USE CHANGES

CHANGE TRAJECTORIES OF FOREST DEVELOPMENT

T1+T2+T3+T4

1952-53

1977-78

1989-90

2004-05

COLLECTING LOCAL KNOWLEDGE THROUGH PARTICIPATORY GISTECHNIQUES

Where do I cultivate?What places I like most?What areas are important?

Physical forces

Cultural forces

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DYNAMICS IN

LANDSCAPE SYSTEM

FINLAND’S DEVELOPMENT POLICY PROGRAMME

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Fagerholm, N. (2012). Community inhabitants’ values and benefits in dynamic tropical forest landscapes - Participation and spatial analysis in landscape knowledge integration. Annales Universitatis Turkuensis AII 272. Doctoral thesis (article-based). Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku.Fagerholm, N. Käyhko, N., Ndumbaro, F. and Khamis, M. (2012) Community stakeholders’ knowledge in landscape assessments – mapping indicators for landscape services. Ecological Indicators 18:421-433. Käyhkö, N., Fagerholm, N., Asseid, B.S., Mzee, A.J. (2011). Dynamic land use and land cover changes and their effect on forest resources in a coastal village of Matemwe, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Land Use Policy 28, 26–37.Mustelin, J., Klein, R.G., Asseid, B., Sitari, T., Khamis, M., Mzee, A. & Haji, T. (2010). Understanding current and future vulnerability in coastal settings: community perceptions and preferences for adaptation in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Population & Environment, 31 (5), 371–398.Fagerholm, N. & Käyhkö, N. (2009). Participatory mapping and geographical patterns of the social landscape values of rural communities in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Fennia 187, 43–60.Kotiluoto, R, Ruokolainen, K. & Kettunen, M. (2009). Invasive Acacia auriculiformis Benth. in different habitats in Unguja, Zanzibar. African Journal of Ecology, 47 (1), 77–86.Käyhkö, N & Mäki, S. (eds, 2009). Development Geography (Special issue), Fennia 187:1, 1–76.Asseid, B., Madeweya, K., Mzee, A., Khamis, M., Fagerholm, N., Käyhkö, N., Orjala, M. & Mustelin, J. (eds., 2008). Maubile Endelevu ya ardhi Zanzibar. Turku University Department of Geography Publications A: 173. 45 p.

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