TY - BOOK AU - Dudhe, Vivek R. AU - De, Prasanta (Guide) TI - Spatial environmental plan for Nasik (Also available on CD) U1 - P TH-0853 PY - 2005/// N1 - CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction to Area & Regional Assessment . 1 1. Need for Spatial Planning 1 2. Goal .. 3 3. Broad Objectives 3 4. Regional Assessment 3 5. Population Composition of the area 3 5.1. Population - Nashik District 4 5.2. Urban & Rural Population 4 5.3. SC / ST Population 5 5.4. Occupational Pattern 5 5.5. Cropping Intensity . 6 5.6. Irrigation Intensity .. 7 6. Land use . 7 6.1. Land use distribution . 8 6.2. Forest .. 9 7. Conclusion . 9 Chapter 2 Study Area Profile 10 1 Spatial Location of Study Area .. 10 1.1 Study Area Delineation 10 1.2 Change in Village Revenue Boundaries (71 - 01) 10 2 Climate 12 2.1 Rainfall 12 2.2 Temperature 13 2.3 Relative Humidity 13 3 Soil 14 3.1 Characteristics of different Soil Texture . 14 3.2 Soil component size . 14 3.3 Classification of Soi . 14 3.4 Conclusion 15 4 Topography 16 4.1 Terrain - Regional Analysis 17 4.2 Terrain at Study Area 17 4.3 3D Terrain Model of Study Area . 17 4.4 Problems .. 17 5 Land use . 18 5.1 Existing Land use .. 18 5.2 Land use Changes . 18 5.3 Agriculture 18 5.4 Cropping Intensity in Peint Circle 20 5.5 Villages requiring Water Tankers for domestic uses 20 6 Livestock 20 6.1 Peint Circle Total Livestock 21 6.2 Spatial distribution of Change in Livestock 21 7 Population Projection . 22 7.1 Methodology22 7.2 Population Projection of Villages 23 8 Population Composition 24 9 Spatial distribution of population . 25 10 Change in Population 25 10.1 SC population . 25 10.2 ST Population 26 11 Occupation 27 12 Change in Agricultural labor force 28 Chapter 3 Land Capability . 31 1. Land capability classes 31 1.1. Color Code 32 1.2. Methodology 32 1.3. Land capability factors (modified after Landson, 1984) . 33 2. Land Capability Classification for Study Area 34 3. Conclusion 34 Chapter 4 Vegetation 35 1. Introduction 35 2. Use of forest product for survival . 35 3. Existing Scenario 36 4. Vegetation cover Assessment 36 4.1. Vegetation cover in 1989 36 4.2. Vegetation cover in 2000 . 37 4.3. Objectives 37 4.4. Methodology .. 38 4.5. Change in Vegetation Cover 39 4.6. Spatial Indexing of vegetative cover . 39 4.7. Conclusions 39 4.8. Strategies 40 5. Vegetation Cover & Land Capability Assessment 40 5.1. Methodology 40 5.2. Spatial presentation of Capable Land for Forestry 40 5.3. Spatial presentation of Opportunity areas for Forestry 41 5.4. Conclusion 41 Chapter 5 Crop Suitability . 42 1. Objectives 42 2. Methodology .. 43 3. Plant Information Requirements for Crop Suitability Assessment .. 43 4. Crop Suitability Analysis 43 4.1. Assessing Crop Suitability for Rice 44 4.2. Assessing Crop Suitability for Mango . 44 4.3. Assessing Crop Suitability for Cashew nut 45 4.4. Assessing Crop Suitability for Rubber 45 4.5. Assessing Crop Suitability for Black Pepper 46 4.6. Assessing Crop Suitability for Cardamom . 46 5. Conclusion 47 6. Strategies for planting the crops in the suitability areas.. 47 Chapter 6 Watershed plan- .. 48 1. Objective 48 2. Introduction 48 3. Process in preparing Watershed plan .. 48 3.1. Network component 48 3.2. Drainage component .. 52 3.3. The Channel component 54 4. Methodology & Process 55 4.1. Terrain Preprocessing 55 4.2. Watershed Processing 60 5. Proposal- .. 61 5.1. Spatial Location of Check Dams . 61 5.2. Water catchment potential of check dam . 62 5.3. Water requirement 63 5.4. Surface water balance. 67 5.5. Conclusion 68 References Websites Address ER -