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  title info:
    title: 'Moving towards Risk' - A Melancholic Story of Punjab Satluj Floodplain
  name:
    name part: Kaur, Harsimrat.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 139 p. 54 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This 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…
  table of contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Satluj Floodplain: A Landscape -- Chapter 2 -- Satluj Floodplain: Patterns of Landscape Transformation -- Chapter 3 -- Satluj Floodplain: A Hazardscape -- Chapter4 -- Satluj Floodplain: A Possible Green Habitat.
  note: by Harsimrat Kaur.
  subject:
    topic: Marine sciences
  subject:
    topic: Freshwater
  subject:
    topic: Aquatic ecology
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Soil science
  subject:
    topic: Soil conservation
  subject:
    topic: Marine & Freshwater Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Freshwater & Marine Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Natural Hazards
  subject:
    topic: Soil Science & Conservation
  classification: QH541.5.S3
  classification: QH541.5.F7
  classification: 551.4
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Earth System Sciences
  identifier: 9783319952970
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95297-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 180918
    record change date: 20191029012004.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-95297-0