Land Use Dynamics in a Developing Economy: Regional Perspectives from India

by Shahab Fazal

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400752547
• ISBN13: 9789400752542
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"