Identification

Title

Scenarios of future land use change in Mozambique (2014 and 2015)

Abstract

Data comprise scenarios of how land use can be in the future and how will it affect ecosystem services in rural Mozambique. The scenarios were constructed from information gathered at five workshops held in Maputo, Xai Xai, Quelimane and Lichinga in 2014 and 2015. The objective of the workshops was to examine aspects that influence well-being (e.g. ecosystem services) and their causes (e.g. change in land use) in the Miombo woodland area of rural Mozambique and identify actions that could contribute to poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation. The final objective was to construct scenarios of how the land use can be in Mozambique in the future (2035). The data were collected as part of the Abrupt Changes in Ecosystem Services and Wellbeing in Mozambican Woodlands (ACES) project and were funded by the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme, funded by NERC, the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DfID), the three are government organizations from UK. The project was led by the University of Edinburgh, with the collaboration of the Universidad Mondlane, the IIED, and other organizations.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/97c65c35-1db5-49d5-8ee0-ae5c7b699634

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

CRS:84

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

economy

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

scenario

ACES

ESPA programme

Keyword set

keyword value

Mozambique

Xai Xai

Maputo

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

30.21

East bounding longitude

41.05

North bounding latitude

-10.33

South bounding latitude

-26.92

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2014-08-01

End position

2015-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-11-06

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

The data were collected during the development of 5 workshops. The workshops were divided in two parts, one devoted to Bayesian belief networks (BBN) and the second to scenario construction. The data was collected in different ways and formats: 1) one to three persons took notes during the workshops; 2) we recorded most of the discussions after obtaining the acceptance from the participants for doing so; 3) we took pictures of the materials generated, with the necessary quality to read and interpret the content. Two persons were in charge of writing down the results from the workshops in the presented documents: one of them wrote a first version, which was then reviewed by a second person. Both persons had been present during the workshops. Both of them did a final review of the documents, and then were approved as official results from the project.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

rich text format

version of format

unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Â© University of Edinburgh

Constraint set

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

eidc@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-03-01T14:31:37

Metadata language

eng