Journal article
Spatial assessment of the impact of land use and land cover change on supply of ecosystem services in Phewa watershed, Nepal
K Paudyal, H Baral, SP Bhandari, A Bhandari, RJ Keenan
Ecosystem Services | ELSEVIER | Published : 2019
Abstract
Community-managed forested landscapes are complex social-ecological systems that supply a variety of ecosystem services (ES) to society. The flow of these services depends on land use and land cover (LULC) changes, ecological factors such as types, pattern and composition of vegetation, as well as anthropogenic factors. ES assessment helps to deal with the complexity of the interrelationships among LULC, ES supply and societal benefits. Using the case of the Phewa watershed, Nepal, this paper presents a quantitative and qualitative assessment of priority ES to understand how the supply of ES and their societal benefits have changed over the past 40 years. LULC changes were analysed using sat..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank the Australia Awards Scholarship Program for providing financial support to the first author. We are deeply grateful to all participants of the workshop for their time for meetings and discussions. Our cordial thanks go to Nutan Sharma, Ministry of Energy, Nepal for providing water-related data and Sanjaya Devkota for road network data of the Phewa watershed. Three anonymous referees and the copy-editor Dr Susanne Holzknecht are gratefully acknowledged for their highly valuable suggestions.