000			01751nam a22001577a 4500
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082			_bCEPT _a333.73
100			_aCenter for Environmental Planning and Technology _950932
245			_aGujarat state land use board Surendranagar district land use plan: agro ecological zoning January 2005
260			_aAhmedabad _bCEPT University _c2005
300			_a87p.
505			_aCONTENTS 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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700			_aBhaskaracharya Institute for Space Application and Geoinformatics, (BISAG) Gandhinagar _950068
890			_aIndia
891			_aGratis