study on land use pattern change and its causes

نویسندگان
چکیده

land use of sylhet has changed gradually. this is found from the field survey that in 1970 the area was dominated by marshy land (645.33 katha), vacant land (430.88 katha) and crop land (336.17 katha). by 1988 there was no university in the area. residential area also increased. it covered 39.11 % of total study area. now in 2007 there is a radical change noticed in the area in comparison with 1988. population has increased and accordingly residential area has also increased. now it covers about 58.71 % of the study area. a survey was conducted to judge the view of the old residents of the area about the change of the land use pattern. the impacts of land use changes are desertification, climate changes and hill cutting. improper lands use like removal of vegetal cover brings about marked changes in the local climate of sylhet. deforestation changes rainfall, temperature, wind speed etc. it was observed that rainfall pattern; atmospheric window of sylhet has been changed significantly within last ten years.

برای دانلود باید عضویت طلایی داشته باشید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Mining Coastal Land Use Sequential Pattern and Its Land Use Associations Based on Association Rule Mining

Research on the land use of the coastal zone in the sea–land direction will not only reveal its land use distribution, but may also indicate the interactions between inland land use and the ocean through associations between inland land use and seaward land use indirectly. However, in the existing research, few have paid attention to the land use in sea–land direction, let alone the sequential ...

متن کامل

Prediction of Land Use Change and its Hydrological Effects Using Markov Chain Model and SWAT Model

Access to current and future water resources is one of the concerned problems for managers and policymakers around the world. Because of the communication between water resources and land use, these two topics had come together in different researches. Scenarios designed in regional land planning provide the basis for analyzing the existing opportunities and making the right decisions for manag...

متن کامل

Effects of the land use change on ecosystem service value

The impacts of land utilization change on the ecosystem service values in Daqing during 1995 to 2015 were analyzed based on unit area ecosystem service value of Chinese territorial ecosystem from Mr. Xie Gaodi and ecosystem service value calculation formula from Costanza. Results showed that the ecosystem service value of Daqing decreased from US $4343.1559m in 1995 to US $3824.327m in 2015, wi...

متن کامل

Impact of land use change on soil erodibility

Vulnerability of soil separates to detachment by water is described as soil erodibility by Universal Soil Loss Equation which can be affected by land use change. In this study it was attempted to quantify the changes of Universal Soil Loss Equation K-factor and its soil driving factors in three land uses including rangeland, rainfed farming, and orchards in Babolrood watershed, northern Iran. S...

متن کامل

Spatial Pattern of Land Use Change and Its Driving Force in Jiangsu Province

Scientific interpretation of the mechanism of land use change is important for government planning and management activities. This study analyzes the land use change in Jiangsu Province using three land use maps of 2000, 2005 and 2008. The study results show that there was a significant change in land use. The change was mainly characterized by a continuous built-up land expansion primarily at ...

متن کامل

Land-Use/Land-Cover Change and Its Impacts on Weather and Climate

Land-use and land-cover changes (LULCC) significantly affect weather and climate as iswell documented in the scientific literature. These impacts include changes in air temperature, precipitation, atmospheric moisture content, energy fluxes, and mesoscale and potentially large-scale circulations. Recently, the United States National Research Council (2005) highlighted the importance of LULCC an...

متن کامل

منابع من

با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید


عنوان ژورنال:
international journal of environmental research

جلد ۲، شماره ۲، صفحات ۱۹۹-۲۰۴

میزبانی شده توسط پلتفرم ابری doprax.com

copyright © 2015-2023