Environmental and socio-economic impact of land use change. Case study of Gishwati forest in Rwanda

• ABSTRACT
  
  • 1.4.2. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
    
  • 1.4.3. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
    
  • 2.1. STUDY AREA DESCRIPTION 2.1.1. GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
    
  • 2.1.2. DESCRIPTION OF BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES
    
  • 2.1.3. THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE LOCAL POPULATION
    
  • 2.3. DATA SOURCES
    
  • 2.3.1. SECONDARY SOURCES OF DATA
    
  • 2.3.2. PRIMARY SOURCES OF DATA
    
  • 2.3.2.1. INTERVIEWS AND QUESTIONNAIRES
    
  • 2.3.2.2. SAMPLING TECHNIQUES
    
  • 2.3.2.3. FIELD OBSERVATION
    
  • 2.4. DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
    
  • 3.1. LITERATURE REVIEW 3.1.1. INTRODUCTION
    
  • 3.1.2. DEFINITIONS OF KEY WORDS
    
  • 3.1.3. GENERALITY ON THE FOREST OF RWANDA
    
  • 3.2. PRESENTATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
    
  • 3.2.1. WHAT DOES LAND USE CHANGE INVOLVE?
    
  • 3.2.2. RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF LAND USE CHANGE
    
  • 3.2.3. IMPORTANCE OF FOREST
    
  • 3.2.4. SPATIAL EVOLUTION OF GISHWATI
    
  • 3.2.3. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
    
  • 3.2.4. SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS
    
  • 3.2.5. HOW THE FOREST WAS OCCUPIED Table 7.Way of accessing to land into the forest
    
  • 3.2.6. THE VIEWS OF POPULATION ABOUT FOREST RESTORATION AND THEIR LIVELIHOODS
    
  • 3.2.7. THE CURRENT SITUATION OF GISHWATI LANDSCAPE
    
  • 3.2.9. THE PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
    
  • 4.1. GENERAL CONCLUSION
    
  • 4.2. RECOMMENDATIONS
    
• Section I. attitude questions