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

• Main Author: Fazal, Shahab (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
• Subjects: Geography.; Economic geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Environmental economics.; Demography.; Human geography.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Economic Geography.; Urbanism.; Human Geography.; Environmental Economics.

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. The...