Comprehensive impact assessment of watershed development projects in lower Bhavani catchments of Tamil Nadu

Manivannan, S.; Khola, O. P. S.; Kannan, K.; Hombegowda, H. C.; Singh, Dipty; Sundarambal, P.; Thilagam, V. Kasthuri

doi:10.5958/2455-7145.2021.00003.5

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“…For comprehensive development with the integration of land and water [173] Third stage (from 2000 onwards) Second stage of social forestry Oilseed production to produce renewable energy and employment generation in wasteland-dominated areas [176] Formation of national rain-fed area authority Holistic development in rain fed area [199] Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and water security…”

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“…Meanwhile, the IWDP tries to develop wastelands in non-forest areas [172]. However, the watershed development approach tries to develop wasteland through its "Ridge to Valley approach" [95], where wastelands are identified explicitly in isolated patches within a demarcated area [173]. Apart from programs that directly emphasized wasteland development at the national level, few land reclamation programs have emerged.…”

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Reappraising Natures and Perspectives of Wasteland in the Developing World with a Focus on India

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Satpati

et al. 2024

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This article seeks to provide an improved and more comprehensive understanding of the concept and theories on wasteland. It achieves this by focusing on the Indian context, allowing us to unpack the importance of including multiple perspectives of wasteland narratives; this means including more positive narratives of the potential of wasteland to inform and improve prospects for land policies in the Global South. Wasteland is commonly recognized as an underutilized category of land that may transform into a valuable resource base with proper management measures. The term waste has multiple angles that carry different notions ranging from fallow to agroforestry land in the Global South and brownfield to green space in the Global North. We conduct a narrative review approach to qualitatively analyze the concept of wastelands, which has been studied in the pre-existing literature from 1970 to the present. This unsystematic literature review approach incorporates multiple elements of wasteland discourse, like understanding the meaning of the term on a global scale, setting out the meaning of the term waste into multiple perspectives explicitly in the Indian context, along with different classes and management approaches to wasteland from a national perspective. The multiple perspectives of wasteland not only generate misconceptions of land resources but spawn difficulties in land-use policy, particularly for the Indian scenario. For sustainable land-use policy, reclaiming wasteland would be the best possible way for India and other countries in the Global South, which requires a comprehensive methodological overview on wasteland narrative.

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“…The high value of soil quality indices shows that soil quality greatly assists crop production and is the key to sustaining agroecosystem productivity [17,18]. Possessing knowledge of the spatial distribution of fertility status parameters will make it possible to determine the soil quality of an area, and ensure the proper management of areas directly, using appropriate amendment strategies [19].…”

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Combining Fuzzy, Multicriteria and Mapping Techniques to Assess Soil Fertility for Agricultural Development: A Case Study of Firozabad District, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Ram

AbdelRahman

et al. 2023

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Soil fertility (SF) assessment is an important strategy for identifying agriculturally productive lands, particularly in areas that are vulnerable to climate change. This research focuses on detecting SF zones in Firozabad district, Uttar Pradesh, India, for agricultural purposes, so that they can be prioritized for future management using the fuzzy technique in the Arc GIS model-builder. The model computing technique was also deployed to determine the different fertility zones, considering 17 soil parameters. The derived fuzzy technique outperformed the traditional method of dividing the sampling sites into clusters to correlate soil fertility classes with the studied soil samples. The prioritization of the soil factors and a spatial analysis of the fertility areas were carried out using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and GIS tools, respectively. The AHP analysis outcome indicated that hydraulic properties had the highest weighted value, followed by physical and chemical properties, regarding their influence on SF. The spatial distribution map of physico-chemical properties also clearly depicts the standard classification. A fuzzy priority map was implemented based on all the classes parameters to identify the five fertility classes of the soil, namely very high (0.05%); high (16.59%); medium (60.94%); low (22.34%); and very low (0.07% of total area). This study will be of significant value to planners and policymakers in the future planning and development of activities and schemes that aim to solve similar problems across the country.

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“…Whereas the IWDP tries to develop wastelands in non-forest areas [172]. However, the watershed development approach tries to develop wasteland through its "Ridge to Valley approach" [95], where wastelands are identified explicitly in isolated patches within a demarcated area [173]. Apart from the programs that directly emphasized wasteland development at the national level, few lands reclamation programs have emerged.…”

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Reappraising Natures and Perspectives of <em>Wasteland </em>in Developing World with a Focus on India

Kar,

Sundberg,

Satpati

et al. 2024

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This article seeks to provide an improved and more comprehensive understanding of the concept and theories on wasteland. It achieves this by focusing on the Indian context allowing us to unpack the importance of including multiple perspectives of wasteland narratives; this means including more positive narratives of the potential of wasteland to inform and improve prospects for land policies in the global south. Wasteland is commonly recognized as an underutilized category of land that may transform into a valuable resource base with proper management measures. The term waste has multiple angles that carry different notions ranging from fallow to agroforestry land in the global south and Brownfield to green space in the global north. We conduct a narra-tive review approach to qualitatively analyze the concept wastelands studied in pre-existing lit-erature from 1970 to present. The unsystematic literature review approach incorporates multiple elements of wasteland discourse, like understanding the meaning of the term on a global scale, setting out the meaning of the term waste into multiple perspectives explicitly in the Indian con-text, along with different classes and management approaches of wasteland from a national per-spective. The multiple perspectives of wasteland not only generate misconception on land resource but spawn difficulties in land use policy particularly for Indian scenario. For sustainable land use policy, reclaiming wasteland would be the best possible way for India and other countries in Global South, which requires a comprehensive methodological overview on wasteland narrative.

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Comprehensive impact assessment of watershed development projects in lower Bhavani catchments of Tamil Nadu

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Reappraising Natures and Perspectives of Wasteland in the Developing World with a Focus on India

Reappraising Natures and Perspectives of Wasteland in the Developing World with a Focus on India

Combining Fuzzy, Multicriteria and Mapping Techniques to Assess Soil Fertility for Agricultural Development: A Case Study of Firozabad District, Uttar Pradesh, India

Reappraising Natures and Perspectives of <em>Wasteland </em>in Developing World with a Focus on India

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