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Volume : III, Issue : II, March - 2013 LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE -- An Empirical approach of assessment to Man-Environment Relationship SANDIPAN CHAKRABORTY Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Since pre-historic times marked environmental changes are going on in
association with changing pattern of economy, society, culture and civilization.
Multifaceted changes, transformation and conversions are the results of multi level
pressures on ecosystems and the human dimensions of global environmental changes
happen through a sub-set of multi-level driving forces which directly or indirectly alter
aspects of the physical, economic, social and cultural environment in ways that have
global as well as regional effects. The triggering forces for land use and cover changes
may be bio-physical, technological, organizational and economical in nature. Land use
and land cover change offers significant association with the functioning of socioeconomic
and environmental systems with important tradeoffs for sustainability, food
security, biodiversity and the vulnerability of people and ecosystems to global change
impacts. In terms of human dimension of land use change it has been ascertained that the
globe is underlying a transformation from predominantly rural centric to urban society.
In the last part of the 20th century the land has been mostly degraded with the increment
of irrigated area around the world especially for meeting the demand of the huge
population. The driving forces and crux of land use change may be sub-divided into two
categories. - i) Direct or Proximate causes; ii) Indirect and root (inherent) causes.
Proximate causes of land use change are primarily local and constitute instant human
activities or immediate actions that originate from intended land use and physical
actions that directly affect land cover; In contrast, underlying or root causes are
fundamental forces, may originate from the regional or even global. However, most of
those basic drivers leading to land use modification are usually endogenous, although
they may also be influenced by exogenous factors as well. However, it is to be concluded
that the whole biosphere, ecosphere and global system mechanism are directly affected
by land use and land cover changes through bio-geo-physical, bio-geo-chemical and
energy transformation processes. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : SANDIPAN CHAKRABORTY, (2013). LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE -- An Empirical approach of assessment to Man-Environment Relationship. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. II, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2175.pdf References : - Abrol YP, Sangwan S, Tiwari MK, eds. 2002. Land Use: Historical Perspectives,Focus on Indo-Gangetic Plains. New Delhi: Allied. 667 pp.
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