Understanding of the driving forces of land use/ land cover change is essential for effective sustainable land resource management. Hence, this study was conducted to investigate land use/ land cover dynamics, its drivers and impacts in Nada Asendabo watershed, Gilge Gibe sub catchment of Ethiopia. It covers an area of 8,012 ha. Information Was extracted from three period land sat images (1973 MSS, 1986 TM and 2004 ETM+). Analysis of data was accomplished through integrated use of ERDAS imagine (version 9.2), Arc GIS software and SPSS version 16.00. Six land use/ land cover classes were...

Few years ago Emphasis on Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRAs) has been placed with limited attention to the theoretical or conceptual underpinnings to process plan. In this paper, conceptual and process issues relating to plan in natural resource are discussed, using a PRA was assessed and find out the role of participatory approach in community development. This paper seeks to address issues embodied in notions of community, local participation and learning experience. How PRA process design can manage interpretation of data, who is involved in that interpretation, and the intentions of...