Full Length Research Paper

Assessing conflict impacts on urban physical infrastructure: A GIS approach

A. Ayanlade* and O. I. Orinmogunje

Department of Geography, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

*Corresponding author. E-mail: sinaayanlade@yahoo.co.uk. Tel: +2348061245470.

Abbreviations: GIS, Geographic information systems; GPS, global positioning system; IM, Ile-Ife and Modakeke.

Accepted 14 April, 2011.

Abstract

This paper used geographic information systems (GIS) technique to assess the impact of conflict on land use in Ile-Ife and Modakeke in Nigeria. There has been limited systematic research work in terms of mapping the impacts of the communal crisis on the land use pattern using GIS. Therefore, the major aim of this paper is to map the impact of communal conflict on land use with the aid of GIS. Global positioning system (GPS) was used to take the co-ordinates of the affected area. The GIS map produced more than six years after the last clash between both communities. The research team counted 53 houses that were totally destroyed and remained to be re-built or rehabilitated.

Key words: Conflict, land-use planning, assessment, GIS analysis.