CONTENTS Preface vii Publisher's Note viii Acknowledgements ix List of the Contributors xv Introduction and Overview 1 B. Thakur 1. Land Evaluation: Some General Consideratiors 39 J.J. Basinski 2. Terrain Evaluation: Concept, Method and Application 45 Nageshwar Prasad and Abhimanyu Mahto 3. Land Evaluation for Agriculture 81 J.R. Ive 4. Land Capability Classification: A Case Study of Sultanpur District 90 Hridai R. Yadav 5. Wasteland Inventory: Step Towards Wasteland Development 97 Anil Kumar 6. The Higher Himalayan Beas Basin: An Analysis of Landform Systems, Soils and Land use 112 O.P. Thakur and P.B. Saxena 7. Classification of Terrain into Morpho-Cultural Environment Units: A Case Study of Himalayan Basin 134 S.C. Kharakwal 8. Impact of Terrain Characteristics on Catchment Yield: A Case of Kabbini River Basin, Kerala 145 Srikumar Chattopadhyay and Mahamaya Chattopadhyay 9. Biophysical Characteristics of Land in the Mahanadi Delta 158 B. Thakur and Punyatoya Patra 10. Comparative Study of Visual and Digital Remote-Sensing Techniques for Desert Landform Analysis Using Landsat and IRS Images 196 Amal Kar, T.K. Ghosh, Surendra Singh and S. Viswanatham 11. Ecological and Economic Principles in Land Utilization: An Attempt Towards a Synthesis 212 Jyotirmoy Mukhopadhyay 12. Computer-Assisted Land Resource Management Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technology 231 Qiming Zhou and Anthony K. Milne 13. Multidate Satellite Data for Landuse Change Analysis246 R. Nagaraja 14. Agricultural Research and Third World Poverty 263 D.J. Greenland 15. Sustainable Development, Poverty Alleviation and Limited-Resource Farmers: Rethinking the Mission of Agricultural Support in Asia 275 Bruce Koppel 16. Resource Potentials for Agricultural Development in Chhotanagpur: Review and Reassessment 317 Nageshwar Prasad 17. Patterns of NOAA AVHRR NDVI Distribution in the Middle Ganges Plains and its Adjacent Areas and the Relationship with Rabi Crops 356 G Venugopal, Ashok K. Dutt and Kevin M. Turcotte 18. Agricultural Land Development and Changes in Rajasthan 376 B.L. Sharma and Palak Bhardwaj 19. Meaning, Scope and Statutes of Urban Land Development 395 R.G Gupta 20. Urban Land Policies in India: In Retrospect and Prospect 418 K. Adinarayana Reddy 21. Nature of Urban Land Values in Developed and Developing Countries 430 Ashok K. Dutt and G Venugopal 22. Some Aspects of Urban Land-Use and Development Planning Strategies in Eldoret, Kenya 446 Cleophas Lado 23. Estimating Food Production Potential in Papua New Guinea 476 J.A. Bellamy and J.R. McAlpine 24. Economics of Conserving Degraded Land for Agriculture: A Case Study 486 Hridai R. Yadav 25. Strategies for Conserving Degraded Land 491 Hridai R. Yadav 26. Reclamation of Sagar Island, West Bengal: Environmental Problems and Human Responses 504 Sunando Bandyopadhyay 27. Wetland Management-Traditional Rights and Recreational Uses: The Tonda Wildlife Management Area of Papua New Guinea 527 P. Eaton 28. Wasteland and Their Reclamation in Damodar River Basin 536 R. Thakur Index 558