2Famine Early Warning Systems Network, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
3Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute (EEFRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Long-term urban land use land cover change (LULCC) dynamics and climate change trends in Southwest Ethiopia s four urban centers were examined for 60 years. Remote sensing, aerial photos, and Landsat, temperature, and rainfall data were analyzed from a climate change perspective over the Jimma, Bedelle, Bonga, and Sokorru urban centers of southwest Ethiopia from 1953 to 2018. Based on geospatial analysis and maximum likelihood supervised image classification techniques to classify LULCC categories, the Mann-Kendall test was applied to perform trend analyses on temperature and rainfall. The LULCC analysis revealed that built-up areas over the urban centers had shown an increasing trend, with the highest increment by 2,360 hectares over Jimma, while vegetation, wetland, and cropland declined due to conversion of plain lands to built-up areas
2National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
3Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
4Precision Medicine, Platform on Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum, San Francisco, CA, United States
5Institute of Genetics, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
6Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
7Facultad de Medicina, Center for Genetics and Genomics, Clinica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
8Institute of Health Management, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
9KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
10Rare Diseases South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa