Download Free Land Resource Inventory And Assessment Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online Land Resource Inventory And Assessment and write the review.

The depletion of land resources is one of the greatest challenges for mankind in this millennium. Shrinking land resources, weather aberrations, deterioration of land quality, and the globalization and liberalization of market economies have become intertwined to influence the sustainable management of land resources and land use plans. This important volume, Sustainable Management of Land Resources: An Indian Perspective, addresses these challenges. This comprehensive volume, covering important research, much of it gathered with the use of new technology, tools, and applications, is organized into four sections: (add bullets) land resource inventory and characterization geospatial technologies in land resource mapping and management soil nutrient status and management land use planning and livelihood security The volume looks at how scientists translate their knowledge and experience in sustainable land resources and management into implementable policy decisions, with a particular focus on India. Since India is an agrarian economy, the land resources assume a very critical role affecting the livelihood of a vast majority of populace in the country. The information gathered—and the methods by which it is gathered—is applicable globally. This comprehensive publication will be highly useful for the researchers, academicians, extension workers, policymakers, planners, officials of land resources survey, planning and management institutions/agencies/departments, and others.
Soil resource inventory methods commonly used have inherent weakness. The Land System Approach eliminates these defects by providing sufficient information for soil classification and land use planning purposes covering vast areas economically in the shortest time possible. This was accomplishes through the systematizing activities in the pre-survey activities, exploratery field traverses, systematic field traverses and post survey. The ease of integrating land resources data and information into the comprehensive resource survey was outstanding. Soil characteristics and lend features were grouped into classes as an interpretation forming a diagnostic criteria serving as the basis for appraising suitability of various land use alternatives such as: Wetland Ag riculture, Upland Agriculture, Urban and Industrial, Recreation, and seven (7) Engineering Uses. Foremost in this approach is the incorporation of a comparative Suitability Rating, an evaluation method that does notg succumb to shortcomings due to internal bias and use of pre-determined weighted effects. Instead, criteria are equally treated and this permits multiple comparison of land uses, a mechanism for first comparison at different levels of suitability for a defined land use on a specific tract of land. Results of soil resources inventory and evaluation indicate that Wetland Agriculture is moderately suitable in the alluvial flats and intermediary valleys are the best areas indicated by the higher CSR value in comparison with the CSR values ...