Contact

Phone: +49 (0)228 73-4634
Fax: +49 (0)228 73-1889

Center for Development Research
Walter-Flex-Str. 3
53113 Bonn, GERMANY
www.zef.de

Department

Department of Ecology and Resource Management
(ZEF c)

Area of Specialization 

Geography, Applied Remote Sensing, Ecology, Landscape Analysis, Land/Water Degradation

Role
in the project

Researcher, CLUSTER E, Sub-Projects E2, E3, E4

Sub-project

Land cover change analysis using cellular automata approach (E2), Agent-based modeling (E3), Land use change prediction (E4)

Contacts / Partners /
Funding Institutions

Publications

Le, B.Q., Tamene, L., Liebe, J., Bruner, A., Vlek, P.L.G. (In preparation). A decision support tool for landscape management planning to tackle land and water degradation in the Volta basin.

Tamene, L., Adwubi, A., Amegashie, B., Agyare, W., Le, B.Q., Rodgers, C., Alamirew, D., Vlek, P.L.G. (In preparation). Expert-based and quantitative analysis of reservoir sedimentation and controlling factors in the White Volta basin.

Tamene, L., Agyare, W., Le, B.Q., Vlek, P.L.G. (In preparation). Sediment and nutrient flux into small reservoirs in the White Volta basin: an implication for water availability, and land and water degradation.

Le, Q.B., Schindler, J., Gleisberg, K., Laube, W., Tamene, L., Vlek, P.L.G (In preparation). A multi-agent based decision support tool for the management of land resources in Volta basin. Special Issue “Land Use and Environmental Sustainability”, Sustainability Science (Abstract accepted for full paper submission).

Vlek, P.L.G., Le, Q.B. and Tamene, L. (2008). Land decline in Land-Rich Africa: a creeping disaster in the making. CGIAR Science Council Secretariat, Rome, Italy, 62 pp.

Landmann, T., Machwitz, M., Le, Q.B., Tamene, L., Vlek, P.L.G., Dech, and S., Schmidt, M. (2008). A land cover change synthesis study for the GLOWA Volta Basin in West Africa using time trajectory satellite observations and cellular automation models. Paper accepted for oral presentation in the 2008 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 6-11 2008, Boston, MA, USA.

Le, Q.B., Tamene, L., Landman, T., Rodgers, C., and Vlek, P.L.G. (2007). A cellular automata approach to simulating land-use/land-cover changes in the White Volta basin In: Addink, E., Barendregt, A., Karssenberg, D., and de Nijs, T. (Eds.) Framing Land Use Dynamics II. Proceedings of International Conference, April 18 – 20, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, p. 113.