SEA Guidance Annex 18

Sensitivity mapping for Chobe Forest Reserve, Botswana

This annex demonstrates GIS-based sensitivity mapping to identify cumulative impacts and land-use conflicts in the Chobe Forest Reserve, and how these methods informed strategic planning for the Okavango Delta Ramsar Site.

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Sensitivity Mapping

Sensitivity mapping for Chobe Forest Reserve, Botswana. An initial SWOT focused an SEA of the Chobe Forest Reserve, Botswana, on the main cumulative impacts and opportunities.

Cumulative Impacts & Resilience

Each cumulative impact was placed within a resilience framework of domain (social, economic, and biophysical), scale, and time. This provided an understanding of where cumulative impacts were within the overall landscape and what was driving them.

GIS Layers & Land Use Conflict

GIS data was used to generate a land use conflict matrix of the three domains. The layers were combined to provide an overview of areas of sensitivity for biophysical aspects and for socioeconomic aspects, so that these can be evaluated separately.

Conflict Identification & Management

The layers were ranked to assign a standardized value so that they could be analyzed for potential land use conflicts using the LUCIS conflict management tool. The mapped raster values provided a framework for management planning of each forest area.

Source

SOURCE: Ecosurv (2018). Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Chobe Forest Reserves Management Plans. Prepared for the Forest Association of Botswana and the Department of Forestry and Range Resources. Ecosurv Environmental Consultants, Gaborone, Botswana.

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