Impact Assessment of Land use Land Cover Change on Sediment Yield using Swat Model: A Review |
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| Dhananjaya Singh Chauhan , RKGIT, Ghaziabad |
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| Sediment Yield, Swat Model |
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Land and water are the two most important resources of the world and these resources must be preserved and maintained carefully for environmental protection and ecological balance. Prime soil resources of the world are finite, non-renewable and susceptible to degradation through misuse and mismanagement. In India, out of a total geographical area of 328 M ha, an estimated 175 M ha of land, constituting an area of 53% suffers from deleterious effect of soil erosion and other forms of land degradation and with the increasing population pressure, misuse of natural resources, faulty land and water management practices, the problem of land degradation will further aggravate. Land use change within an area has not only an impact on numerous hydrologic landscape functions but also affects the habitat quality and thus the biodiversity of a landscape. |
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Paper ID: IJSRDV8I40516 Published in: Volume : 8, Issue : 4 Publication Date: 01/07/2020 Page(s): 266-271 |
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