Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics: Deriving Forces and Perceptions of Local Community in Derashe, Southern Ethiopia

Table 6

Rank of proximate deriving forces, field survey 2022.

Types of proximate deriving forces		First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
Demand for natural resources	Count	101	142	86	20	0
	%	28.9%	40.7%	24.6%	5.7%	0.0%
Agricultural expansion	Count	218	98	31	2	0
	%	62.5%	28.1%	8.9%	0.6%	0.0%
Large number of animals on grazing	Count	0	0	5	10	19
	%	0.0%	0.0%	14.7%	29.4%	55.9%
Settlement expansion	Count	22	102	150	55	4
	%	6.6%	30.6%	45.0%	16.5%	1.2%
Mining	Count	0	0	4	17	47
	%	0.0%	0.0%	5.9%	25.0%	69.1%
Natural force	Count	13	20	77	207	7
	%	4.0%	6.2%	23.8%	63.9%	2.2%