- Title
- Unsustainable trade-offs: provisioning ecosystem services in rapidly changing Likangala River catchment in southern Malawi
- Creator
- Pullanikkatil, Deepa, Mograbi, Penelope J, Palamuleni, Lobina, Ruhiiga, Tabukeli, Shackleton, Charlie M
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176308
- Identifier
- vital:42683
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-018-0240-x
- Description
- Provisioning ecosystem services of the Likangala River Catchment in southern Malawi are important for livelihoods of those living there. Remote sensing, participatory mapping and focus group discussions were used to explore the spatio-temporal changes and trade-ofs in land-cover change from 1984 to 2013, and how that afects provisioning ecosystem services in the area. Communities derive a number of provisioning ecosystem services from the catchment. Forty-eight species of edible wild animals (including birds), 28 species of edible wild plants and fungi, 22 species of medicinal plants, construction materials, ornamental fowers, frewood, honey, gum, reeds and thatch/weaving grasses were derived from the catchment and used by local communities.
- Format
- 20 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Environment, Development and Sustainability, Pullanikkatil, D., Mograbi, P.J., Palamuleni, L., Ruhiiga, T. and Shackleton, C., 2020. Unsustainable trade-offs: provisioning ecosystem services in rapidly changing Likangala River catchment in southern Malawi. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 22(2), pp.1145-1164, Environment, Development and Sustainability volume 22 number 2 1145 1164 2020 1573-2975
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