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Land use change in rapidly developing economies�a case study on land use intensification and land fallowing in Kochi, Kerala, India

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dc.contributor.authorThekkeyil, Akshara
dc.contributor.authorGeorge, Anjaly
dc.contributor.authorAbdurazak, Fathima
dc.contributor.authorKuriakose, Giby
dc.contributor.authorNameer, P.O.
dc.contributor.authorAbhilash, Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil
dc.contributor.authorJoseph, Shijo
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-28T09:36:52Z
dc.date.available2025-01-28T09:36:52Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe land use/land cover change is a local driver of environmental change having cascading impacts and implications at the global level, and therefore requires appreciable consideration when perceived from sustainability perspectives. Kerala, the southernmost state of India, has undergone a dramatic transition from a traditional agrarian economy to a modern thriving economy involving the irrational exploitation of natural resources, precisely, land and its components. The present study addresses how land is being changed along an urbanization gradient in the most agglomerative city in the state, Kochi, during the last one and half decades. High-resolution remote sensing data available from the Google Earth Pro pertaining to the four time periods, i.e., 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020, representing urban, suburban, and rural areas, were analysed to estimate the changes in land use land cover. A semi-structured interview was conducted at the household level to identify the major drivers of land use change. The results indicated the presence of two major and divergent trends; the first one is the intensification of land use activities at the rate of 1.37% per annum, primarily driven by urbanization and infrastructure developments, and the second one is the fallowing and abandonment of land (at the rate of 0.21% per annum) driven by the increased cost of cultivation. The rates of change are more prominent in the rural areas while the urban grids are nearing saturation occupying nearly two-thirds of the area with urban features at the expense of greenery. Though the progression with respect to urbanization and infrastructure developments is expected, the fallowing and abandonment of land is unanticipated, raising serious questions in the developmental pathways to achieve Sustainable Development Goals in the State of Kerala. � 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-11731-7
dc.identifier.issn1676369
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.bhu.ac.in/ir/handle/123456789/21773
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
dc.subjectLand fallowing and abandonment
dc.subjectLand use/land cover change
dc.subjectRemote sensing
dc.subjectSustainable Development Goals
dc.titleLand use change in rapidly developing economies�a case study on land use intensification and land fallowing in Kochi, Kerala, India
dc.typeArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication
journal.titleEnvironmental Monitoring and Assessment
journalvolume.identifier.volume195

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