1st Edition
Integrated Modeling of Land and Water Resources in Two African Catchments
1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Integrated Assessment Modeling
1.3 Study Areas
1.4 Problem Descriptions
1.5 Research Objectives
1.6 Methodology
1.7 Structure of the thesis
Part I: Land‐Use Change Modeling
2 Land suitability assessment in the Abbay basin
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Study Area
2.3 Materials and Methods
2.4 Results
2.5 Discussion
2.6 Conclusion and recommendations
3 A web‐based framework for land‐use suitability assessment
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Data and Methods
3.3 Results and discussion
3.4 Conclusion
4 Land‐use change modeling for the Abbay basin
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Materials and methods
4.3 Results and Discussions
4.4 Conclusion and Recommendations
Part II: Feedback Between Land Use and Hydrology
5 Modelling hydrologic impacts of semi‐dynamic land use in the Jedeb
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Existing literature: state‐of‐the‐art
5.3 Materials and methods
5.4 Results and Discussion
5.5 Discussion
5.6 Conclusion
6 Feedback between coupled land‐use and hydrologic models
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Study Area
6.3 Materials and Methods
6.4 Results
6.5 Discussion
6.6 Conclusions
7 Conclusions and Recommendations
7.1 Conclusions
7.2 Recommendations
7.3 Limitations
References
Appendices
Appendix 1. WFlow model parameters
Appendix 2. Scenario simulation
Appendix 3. SWIM‐SITE Coupling: code snippets
Appendix 4. Land‐cover classification on GEE:code snapshot
Biography
Seleshi Getahun Yalew was born in Dessie, Ethiopia, in 1981. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in 2005 from Addis Ababa University in Information Systems after which he served as assistant lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Haramaya University, Ethiopia, until 2008. From 2008-2010, he followed the MSc programme in Water Science and Engineering, specializing in Hydroinformatics and Water Management, at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands. He joined the department of Integrated Water Systems and Water Governance at the same Institute in 2011 as a PhD fellow.
Seleshi is currently a PostDoc researcher at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development of Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is also a guest researcher of the Water Systems and Global Change Group of Wageningen University. His current research focuses on climate impacts on the global potential of renewable energy, particularly in the context of integrated assessment modeling.
