Research Article
Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics: Deriving Forces and Perceptions of Local Community in Derashe, Southern Ethiopia
Table 7
Rank of major underlying deriving forces, field survey 2022.
| ā | First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth |
| Economic forces | Count | 105 | 176 | 44 | 15 | 2 | 2 | % | 30.5% | 51.2% | 12.8% | 4.4% | 0.6% | 0.6% |
| Demographic forces | Count | 222 | 100 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | % | 64.9% | 29.2% | 5.0% | 0.3% | 0.6% | 0.0% |
| Sociocultural forces | Count | 16 | 42 | 104 | 94 | 37 | 9 | % | 5.3% | 13.9% | 34.4% | 31.1% | 12.3% | 3.0% |
| Institutional forces | Count | 11 | 27 | 125 | 97 | 33 | 8 | % | 3.7% | 9.0% | 41.5% | 32.2% | 11.0% | 2.7% |
| Biophysical forces | Count | 3 | 15 | 46 | 101 | 142 | 20 | % | 0.9% | 4.6% | 14.1% | 30.9% | 43.4% | 6.1% |
| Technological forces | Count | 1 | 3 | 12 | 29 | 55 | 128 | % | 0.4% | 1.3% | 5.3% | 12.7% | 24.1% | 56.1% |
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