Forest Cover Change Assessment in Conflict-affected Areas of Northwest Pakistan: the Case of Swat and Shangla Districts

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	Forest Cover Change Assessment in Conflict-affected Areas of Northwest Pakistan: the Case of Swat and Shangla Districts
	Faisal Mueen QAMER ; Sawaid ABBAS ; Rashid SALEEM ; Khurram SHEHZAD ; Hassan ALI ; Hammad GILANI
刊名	Journal of Mountain Science
	2012-06
卷号	9 期号:3 页码:297-306
关键词	Forest cover change Deforestation Conflict-affected area GIS Pakistan
通讯作者	Faisal Mueen QAMER
英文摘要	This study examines the spatial and temporal forest cover changes in Swat and Shangla districts to understand the deforestation pattern in context of the recent security conflict in these districts. We used multi-resolution satellite images to assess the long term deforestation from 2001 to2009 and also to identify episodic forest cutting areas appeared during the conflict period of Oct. 2007 – Oct. 2008. There are only 58 ha of deforestation identified during the conflict period while 1268 ha of gross annual deforestation were assessed during last eight years. Most of the deforestation patches persist around the administrative boundaries at sub-district levels (tehsils) which can be attributed to ambiguity in unclear jurisdiction between the forest official. The results highlight that the forest cutting appeared in Swat and Shangla during the conflict period is not as significant when compared with the long term deforestation pattern in the area. On the one side the results of the study are supportive to the picture that emerges from international studies which report high rate of deforestation in the country and on the other side it negates any relation between the security situation and the increasing deforestation in the north western Pakistan. The study concludes that deforestation assessments require verification by independent sources of data, such as satellite imagery to improve our understanding of deforestation processes.
收录类别	SCI
公开日期	2013-04-16
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://192.168.143.20:8080/handle/131551/5098]
专题	成都山地灾害与环境研究所_Journal of Mountain Science _Journal of Mountain Science-2012_Vol9 No.3
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Faisal Mueen QAMER,Sawaid ABBAS,Rashid SALEEM,et al. Forest Cover Change Assessment in Conflict-affected Areas of Northwest Pakistan: the Case of Swat and Shangla Districts[J]. Journal of Mountain Science,2012,9(3):297-306.
APA	Faisal Mueen QAMER,Sawaid ABBAS,Rashid SALEEM,Khurram SHEHZAD,Hassan ALI,&Hammad GILANI.(2012).Forest Cover Change Assessment in Conflict-affected Areas of Northwest Pakistan: the Case of Swat and Shangla Districts.Journal of Mountain Science,9(3),297-306.
MLA	Faisal Mueen QAMER,et al."Forest Cover Change Assessment in Conflict-affected Areas of Northwest Pakistan: the Case of Swat and Shangla Districts".Journal of Mountain Science 9.3(2012):297-306.