Peri-Urban Land Use Management and Decision Support  in Ethiopia: A synthesis towards effective framework

Mengaw, Abebe

dc.contributor.author	Mengaw, Abebe
dc.date.accessioned	2021-08-03T07:42:09Z
dc.date.available	2021-08-03T07:42:09Z
dc.date.issued	2021-08-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/12298
dc.description.abstract	The contemporary urbanization, land dispute and the implications to the sustainability of land use especially in the peri-urban areas are emerging as a cross-cutting theme in policy debates and scientific discourse. Most cities in developing countries, including Ethiopia, are experiencing a continuous expansion of peri-urbanization. This high rate of peri-urbanization, and the complexities of constructing effective land use management and decision support framework lead to increasing land use conflicts, a consistent high rate of informal settlement patterns, frequent occurrence of land use dynamics, illegal land acquisition and inequality in land access in most parts of peri-urban areas. These problems call an effective peri-urban land use management and decision support framework. Hence, the main objective of this research is to assess the existing land use management and decision support discourses, strategies and practices with the view to adopt an effective peri-urban land use management and decision support framework. The research relied on a socio-spatial approach and a concept-centric literature review. Both socio-economic and spatial data were utilized. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, and the validity and consistency of the data were tested using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The synthesis result indicated that the existing peri-urban land management frameworks consisting of the institutional arrangements related to land use intervention and the associated land information are incoherent and far from being integrated. The socio-spatial results also portray that the contribution of the informal land use intervention is high for the observed high rate of conversion of peri-urban land uses and management challenges. This is because the existing land intervention processes are lacking effectiveness to govern the spatial patterns of unregulated land uses. This creates haphazard, disputed, and unregulated land use systems in the peri-urban areas. The quality of land information also lacks responsiveness to support land-related decisions such as land use intervention and spatial management of peri-urban areas. This is because the variations in the governance of land information between urban and rural tiers of land administration institutions hamper data sharing, and it derives information redundancies and contradictions, which combined lead to ambiguous information use and reliance. These hamper the effectiveness of decision-makers and result in a situation where managing peri-urban land use is ineffective. Taking into account these problems, this research has adopted an effective peri-urban land use management and decision support framework by identifying the main requirements, indicators and monitoring system towards the proposed framework	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Land	en_US
dc.title	Peri-Urban Land Use Management and Decision Support in Ethiopia: A synthesis towards effective framework	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US