East African wetland-catchment data base for sustainable wetland management

Wetlands cover an area of approx. 18 Mio ha in the East African countries of Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania, with still a relative small share being used for food production. Current upland agricultural use intensification in these countries due to demographic growth, climate change and globaliz...

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Published inProceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences Vol. 374; pp. 123 - 128
Main Authors Leemhuis, Constanze, Amler, Esther, Diekkrüger, Bernd, Gabiri, Geofrey, Näschen, Kristian
Format Journal Article Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Gottingen Copernicus GmbH 01.01.2016
Copernicus Publications
Subjects
Agricultural management
Catchment area
Catchment scale
Catchments
Climate change
Climate effects
Datasets
Ecosystem management
Ecosystem services
Ecosystems
Environmental changes
Exploitation
Floods
Food production
Food security
Globalization
Hydrologic processes
Hydrology
Infrastructure
Land use
Physical properties
Precipitation
River ecology
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Valleys
Wetland agriculture
Wetland management
Wetlands
Uganda
Kenya
East Africa
Africa
Rwanda
Tanzania
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Summary:Wetlands cover an area of approx. 18 Mio ha in the East African countries of Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania, with still a relative small share being used for food production. Current upland agricultural use intensification in these countries due to demographic growth, climate change and globalization effects are leading to an over-exploitation of the resource base, followed by an intensification of agricultural wetland use. We aim on translating, transferring and upscaling knowledge on experimental test-site wetland properties, small-scale hydrological processes, and water related ecosystem services under different types of management from local to national scale. This information gained at the experimental wetland/catchment scale will be embedded as reference data within an East African wetland-catchment data base including catchment physical properties and a regional wetland inventory serving as a base for policy advice and the development of sustainable wetland management strategies.
ISSN:2199-899X
2199-8981
2199-899X
DOI:10.5194/piahs-374-123-2016