3.2 Land use and land cover change
Changes in cropland, forest, and glacier areas were analyzed for every
catchment (Table 2 ). It was found that both glacier and
cropland exhibited negative trends in most cases during the last 30
years. Glacier trends had magnitudes that varied between −0.27% and
−1.79% per year, while the range of magnitude of cropland trends was
−0.07% to −2.53%. The river basin of Gen-Tm is the only one with a
positive cropland trend. Cropland area is increased from 1987 to 2015 by
0.48% per year.