TY  - BOOK
AU  - Center for Environmental Planning and Technology
AU  - Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Application and Geoinformatics, (BISAG) Gandhinagar
TI  - Gujarat state land use board Surendranagar district land use plan: agro ecological zoning January 2005  
U1  - 333.73 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Ahmedabad
PB  - CEPT University
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Land Degradation Assessment	1
1.1    Introduction	1
1.1.1	Types of land degradation	1
1.1.2 Natural degradation hazards	3
1.1.3	Direct causes of degradation	4
1.2.	Methodology	6
PART-1: Environmental Resource Assessment	6
PART-II: Land Degradation Assessment	12
1.2.1.	Results: Environmental Resource Index	20
1.2.2.Results: Land Degradation Index	22
1.3.	Conclusion	26
1.3.1.     Issues of Land Degradation and Remediation	27
Land Evaluation for Crop Suitability	31
2.1.    Introduction	31
2.2 The Methodology	31
2.2.1.     The Procedure	32
2.3	Steps Involved	33
2.3.1 Inventory of Land Use Types	33
2.3.2	Layers Included	34
2.3.3	Crop edaphic and climatologic requirement inventorization	35
2.3.4Levels of suitability	37
2.4.	Results	39
3.Potential Groundwater Recharge Area Zonation	50
3.1.    Method followed	50
3.2.    Results	57
3.3.    Conclusions 58
Appendix I Rainfall Analysis          59
Appendix-II      Factor Weightings for Degradation Assessment	64
Appendix-III     List of Villages Falling in Various Degradation Categories	65
Appendix-IV     Land Evaluation for Cropping (Critical Limits)	77
Appendix-V      Talukawise Villages Index Maps	80


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