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.

		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%