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| Article Name : | | | CHANGING LAND USE PATTERN: A CASE STUDY OF KHED TAHSIL OF THE PUNE DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA STATE | | Author Name : | | | Ratnaprabha S. Jadhav AND Virendra Nagarale | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-1026 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Land use is the application of human controls in a systematic manner, indicating an intimate relationship between prevailing ecological conditions and man (Morepatil, 1995). The study of land use change is of vital importance for future land use planning and development of the area. Therefore the study of land use and its change has been carried out by many researchers and geographers at national and international level. Present work focuses on the assessment of the relationship between population growth and land use change , urbanization growth and general land use change over five decades (1960-61 to 2009-10) in a Khed tahsil of Pune district. | | Keywords : | | |
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