Claudel Tshibangu Lukusa Frankfurt Zoological Society, DR Congo x2019Talk xWetlands xAgriculture xClimate Change
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ABSTRACT (Session: AGRICULTURE AND WATER MANAGEMENT ): "Agricultural Activities, Spatial Pattern, and Impacts on Lubumbashi Wetlands " Claudel Tshibangu, Frankfurt Zoological Society, DRCongo
Wetlands make cities habitable through the ecosystem services they provide to humanity, from freshwater inputs to food and building materials, biodiversity, flood control, groundwater recharge, and climate change mitigation. Because of the low availability of space in urbanized environments, these areas are subject to the double pressure of urbanization and the development of urban agriculture. Lubumbashi, the capital city of Haut-Katanga province, located in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, does not have a master plan of development and also does not escape this trend. For this reason, our study quantified the spatial structure of wetlands and
