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100			_aKaur, Harsimrat _925077
245			_aMoving towards Risk: _bMelancholic Story of Punjab Satluj Floodplain/ _cHarsimrat Kaur
260			_bSpringer, _c2019. _aChandigargh;
300			_axvi,139 p.
440			_aSpringer earth system sciences /edited by Philippe Blondel, Eric Guilyardi at all _925078
505			_a Introduction -- Satluj floodplain: a landscape -- Satluj floodplain: patterns of landscape transformation -- Satluj floodplain: a hazardscape -- Satluj floodplain: a possible green habitat.
520			_aThis book explains the tragic tale of the Satluj floodplain since its inception. As a landscape this floodplain entity evolves and sets a niche to distinctive natural and cultural aspects. The historical reconstruction of the landscape transformation depicts the excessive human encroachment and development activities which leads to more than fifty percent of landscape transformation. Data set layers were generated in a geospatial environment, with the use of multiscale and multitemporal satellite imageries, empirical field verification, and ancillary data input. An integrated landscape model was hence formed in order to identify the causal links between natural and cultural aspects. The author shows a landscape transformation matrix and change detection maps to explain the spatial trends and patterns of land use and land cover change. Pixel wise land use and land cover gain-loss algorithm were identified and measured for a selected time period. Changing spatial pattern of land cover to land use ratio are explained with underlying local to regional level causes. The author thoroughly explains the satellite image interpretation and related methodology. This book provides the detailed transition journey of landscape conversion from resource rich natural entity to a human dominated 'hazardscape'. It also explains how the expansion of population and related activities in the close vicinity of an active floodplain accentuates the problem of flood risks and how it affects the human and livestock life and creates economic loss. The author maps and explains the vector and magnitude of increased human pressure on the landscape and its adverse ecological implications, and describes issues with reference to the hazard status of the Punjab Satluj floodplain, including increased flood risk, increased pressure on agricultural land and depletion of resources, loss of biodiversity, qualitative and quantitative loss to surface and sub-surface water, and soil degradation (soil erosion, waterlogging and soil loss).
650			_a PL _925079
650			_aSutlej River Valley. _925080
650			_aFloodplains -- India -- Punjab. _925081
650			_aSCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography. _925082
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