University of Twente Student Theses
Farmers perspective on land fragmentation: A case of SNNP-region, Ethiopia
Tessema, Wondwosen Haile (2011) Farmers perspective on land fragmentation: A case of SNNP-region, Ethiopia.
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| Abstract: | Natural disasters have been occurring and are expected to occur more frequently in the future. Integration between good land administration and disaster risk management can reduce the adverse impact of disasters. Good land administration plays a significant role in disaster risk management activities before, during and after the occurrence of a disaster. This thesis tries to enhance the understanding of the relationship between land administrations and disaster risk management with a focus on the pre disaster period. Interaction and integration between disaster risk management (risk assessment and prevention and mitigation) and land administration (land use planning and cadastre) and impact of their integration including impact of natural disaster on changes in land use, land tenure and land value were investigated in theory as well as in practice. The methods used in this research are desk research and the use of case studies. Literature review was done to understand the relationship between land administration and disaster risk management in theory. While case studies were used to get a deeper understanding of the relationship between land administration and disaster risk management in practice. The study consists of two empirical cases: Padang and Banda Aceh, both in Indonesia. The assessment framework was developed by using desk research. Five elements of integration have been defined to assess the integration between disaster risk management, land use planning and cadastre in the study areas. The elements defined are: policy, organizations arrangement, data and sharing of data, involvement of external agents including their impact on land use, land value and land tenure. The evaluation of assessment in case study areas was done using “good practice” criteria. Risk information (e.g. hazard zoning) coming from risk assessment affects the land use plan. In some cases, hazard zoning directly imposes the restrictions and responsibilities to landowners located in hazard prone areas. Similarly, the risk-based land use plan could also impose the restrictions and responsibilities to landowners, limit the uses of land and change land value. All these restrictions and responsibilities can be made parcel-based and publicly available by the cadastre. On the other hand, the land use plan only plays a minor role in the risk assessment process. However, it plays a major role in the prevention and mitigation phase through non-structural measures. The cadastre plays a role as sound base information in land use planning, risk assessment and prevention and mitigation processes by providing land-related data. Based on the elements in the framework used, the disaster risk management and land administration have not been fully integrated yet in the case study areas. Some major gaps both in Padang and Banda Aceh were identified related with the absence and inappropriate regulations, weak in sharing data and lack of involvement of external agents (e.g. community). It was also found that in Padang and Banda Aceh, integration between land administration and disaster risk management has an indirect impact on land use, land tenure and land value. However, the impacts are not as significant as the impacts on land use, land tenure and land value due to natural disasters themselves. In Padang, some people leave their properties which are located in the high hazard zone. This becomes a driving factor (among others) in the increase of the price of land in the safe areas. In Banda Aceh, the risk based land use plan changed the areas along the coast to become open space and mangrove forest zone to reduce the adverse impact of a tsunami which might occur in the future. Consequently, landowners are not allowed to build their houses there and other physical development requires specific permits. Resettlement and relocation were carried out by local government for the vulnerable group who live in high hazard zone, but many people returned back to their hazardous place. The discussion has also identified the different phenomena between people in Padang and Banda Aceh concerning their response to the natural disaster that need to be addressed for future studies. Keywords: Risk Assessment, Land Use Plan, Cadastre, Land Tenure, Land Value, Earthquake. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | ITC: Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation |
| Programme: | Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation MSc (75014) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/92904 |
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