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Author:   Ermias Teferi Demessie (UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781138028746

ISBN 10:   1138028746
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   29 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Introduction 2. Study Area 3. Understanding recent land use and land cover dynamics: spatially explicit statistical modelling of systematic transitions 4. Spatio-temporal analysis of changes in landscape patterns 5. Satellite-based monitoring of wetland changes and their ecohydrological characterisation 6. Effects of land use and land cover on selected soil quality indictors 7. Monitoring of soil moisture in responses to land use and land cover changes using Remote Sensing and in-situ observations 8. Predicting soil water retention characteristics in high altitude tropical soils 9. Inter-annual and seasonal trends of vegetation conditions in the Upper Blue Nile (Abay) basin: Dual scale time series Analysis 10. Climatic controls of net primary production and water-use efficiency in the Upper Blue Nile (Abay) basin 11. General Conclusions

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Ermias Teferi Demessie was born on the 13th of March 1979 in Wolieso, central Ethiopia. Although he was born in Wolieso, he grew up in Butajira, Ethiopia, since the age of two. He received his BSc degree in Soil and Water Conservation from Mekelle University, Ethiopia, in July 2002. He joined the then College of Agricultural Technical Vocational and Educational Training in September 2002 and served as a junior instructor for the courses related to ‘Agricultural Water Harvesting Technologies’. In March 2004, he joined the then Ministry of Water Resources as Soil and Water Conservation specialist and worked there for four years. He obtained his MSc degree in Earth Sciences (Remote Sensing and GIS) from the Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, in July 2007. The topic of his Master thesis was soil erosion modelling and land use and land cover change in the source region of the Upper Blue Nile river. After receiving his MSc degree, he served at Mekelle University for one year as a lecturer with teaching and research responsibilities. Since 2009, he has been a lecturer with teaching and research responsibilities at the Center for Environmental and Developmental Studies, Addis Ababa University. His research interests focus on soil and water management, land surface hydrology, and geospatial technology applications. Besides, he is a reviewer of the journals Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Environmental Management, Land degradation and development, and Mountain Sciences and Applied Remote Sensing.

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