A Study on Interdependent and Asymmetrical Behaviours Associated with Land use and Land Cover at Ruhande, Huye, Rwanda

The race of the country in economic development involves an essential infrastructure and protected environment to ensure people and workplace healthy and safe respectively. The growth of this programme must go hand in hand with preliminary studies to harmonize these two elements, followed by executions and regular technical adjustments to prevent damages that may occur in future. From that reason, any attempt aiming to strengthen the quality and value of botanical garden devoted to trees at Ruhande over specific characteristics of some constructions it surrounds and vice versa may result in an asymmetrical and hazardous system rather than conservation and amenity desired at Ruhande. In this research work entitled “A study on Interdependent and Asymmetrical Behaviours Associated with Land use and Land cover at Ruhande, Huye, Rwanda,” behaviours associated with functional relationship between Arboretum of Ruhande owned by Rwanda Agriculture Board and civil engineering laboratory owned by National University of Rwanda have been assessed to define interdependence and asymmetry and risks created by land use and land cover at Ruhande. To achieve this, both social and economic importance of the forest in the area has been assessed as opposed to the capacity of soil to support the loads applied to the ground, the needs for indoor air quality and visual comfort inside the laboratory during the daytime.  The outcome revealed hazardous situation if and only if the state of balance between the systems is unmaintained over the period of time with appropriate measures.