People in settlements need food, raw materials, and relaxation, the gaining of all of which involves exploiting the natural resources of the vicinity. The supply chains of modern cities are extensive and complex. Equally, urban demands affect land cover beyond their immediate vicinity, settlement expansion thus involves both a compact direct change in land cover and a widespread force affecting land cover and land use in other areas. Agriculture occupies a curiously paradoxical situation with respect to the natural environment. Despite the declining role of land in farm input structure in...
People in settlements need food, raw materials, and relaxation, the gaining of all of which involves exploiting the natural resources of the vicinity....
Today, India still remains a rural agricultural country although the share of urban population has also increased but these figures do not tell the whole story. There are evidences that urban growth is dispersed and urban sprawl promotes the spread of urban land use into the rural-urban fringe.
Here the attempt is to investigate the land transformation and the driving forces which were influencing the land transformation. The present study was done on peri urban interface of Aligarh city, a relatively small city, but as other north Indian cities, it is also expanding rapidly....
Today, India still remains a rural agricultural country although the share of urban population has also increased but these figures do not tell the...
This book presents a detailed study on Aligarh s urban fringe, focusing on the livelihood of the villagers who have lived there for generations, and on that of the migrants residing in the villages. As a Class-I city, located in the most populated state (Uttar Pradesh) of India, Aligarh has gained in importance due to its proximity to the national capital (New Delhi) and Uttar Pradesh s industrial cities (Kanpur and Ghaziabad). The 2011 census showed that of the total population of the district, 33.1 per cent was urban (872,575 residents). Projections by the Town and Country Planning...
This book presents a detailed study on Aligarh s urban fringe, focusing on the livelihood of the villagers who have lived there for generations, and o...
