Environmental impacts of land use and land cover changes in Solan District of Himachal Pradesh
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48165/z9kn2x86Keywords:
Burgeoning, Diversity, Land use, Spatio temporal, UndermineAbstract
The way in which a part of landscape serves a functional purpose is defined as land use. The natural features on the surface undergo continuous change and these changes may be as old as the human history is. But the rate or scale of this change has become much faster in the recent past which is resulting into various environmental problems. Land use/land cover is an issue of global importance as the world’s about eight billion people compete for food, water and shelter. India is the seventh largest and second most populous country in the world with amazing physical and cultural diversity. The massive conversion of valuable and limited land resource to agriculture, construction and other land uses are undermining the capacity of this resource to sustain a burgeoning human population. Knowledge about existing land-use/land cover and trends of change is essential for the proper planning, management and regulations of the use of such resources. In the present study effort has been made to analyse the environmental impacts of this spatiotemporal changes in land use/land cover in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh.
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