Water,Land,and ForestSusceptibility andSustainability
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Water,Land,andForest SusceptibilityandSustainability
GeospatialApproachesandModeling
VolumeI
Editedby UdayChatterjee
AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofGeography,BhatterCollege, Dantan(AffiliatedtoVidyasagarUniversity),PaschimMidnapore, WestBengal,India
BiswajeetPradhan
DistinguishedProfessor,CentreforAdvancedModellingand GeospatialInformationSystems(CAMGIS),SchoolofCiviland EnvironmentalEngineering,FacultyofEngineeringandIT,University ofTechnologySydney,Sydney,NewSouthWales,Australia
SureshKumar
GroupHead,Agriculture,Forestry&EcologyGroup,IndianInstitute ofRemoteSensing,IndianSpaceResearchOrganization(ISRO), Dehradun,India
SouravSaha
PostdoctoralAssociate,DepartmentofEarth,Planetary, andSpaceSciences,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles,CA,USA
MohammadZakwan
AssistantProfessor,SchoolofTechnology,MaulanaAzadNational UrduUniversity,Hyderabad,Telangana,India
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Contents
Contributors... ...................................................................................... xvii
Foreword.. ............................................................................................xxi
SECTIONIIntroduction:Theoreticalframeworkand approachofsustainability
CHAPTER1Theoreticalframeworkandapproachesof susceptibilityandsustainability:issues anddrivers .............................................................3 SureshKumar,UdayChatterjeeandAnuDavidRaj
1.1 Introduction... ....................................................................3
1.2 Globalperspectiveofsustainabilityandsusceptibility... ............5
1.3 Theoreticalframeworkofsustainabilityand ecosystemservices... ..........................................................6
1.3.1Water,land,andforest:integralcomponent ofecosystem.. ..........................................................7
1.3.2Sustainabilityandecosystemservices ...........................8
1.3.3Degradationofecosystemservices... ............................9
1.4 Driversandissuesofsusceptibilityandsustainabilityof ecosystems ......................................................................11
1.4.1Susceptibilityandsustainabilityofwaterresources.. ......12
1.4.2Susceptibilityandsustainabilityoflandresources ..........14
1.4.3Susceptibilityandsustainabilityofforestresources.. ......17
1.5 Approachesforsusceptibility/degradationassessmentof ecosystems ......................................................................19
1.6 Conclusions... ..................................................................20 References. ............................................................................21
SECTIONIIWaterresourcesusceptibilityand sustainability
CHAPTER2Trapefficiencyofreservoirs:concept,review, andapplication ......................................................29 QamarSultanaandM.GopalNaik
2.1 Introduction... ..................................................................29
2.1.1Reservoirsedimentation.. ..........................................29
2.1.2Reservoirstoragecapacityreduction. ...........................30
2.1.3Determinationofquantityofsedimentdepositedin reservoir. ................................................................31
2.1.4Determinationoftrapefficiency..................................32
2.2 Limitationsofthestudy. ....................................................33
2.2.1Empiricalmethods...
2.2.2Artificialneuralnetworks...
2.3 Literaturereview
2.4 Materialsandmethods.
2.4.1Empiricalmethods...
2.4.2Artificialneuralnetworks...
2.5 Resultsanddiscussions .....................................................43
2.5.1Analysisofresultsfordifferentmethods ......................43
2.5.2Discussionsoftheresultsofempiricalmethods .............50
2.6 Conclusions. ....................................................................57
3.1
MohamedAbioui,MustaphaIkirri,SaidBoutaleb, FaridFaik,AbderrahmaneWanaim,MounaId-Belqasand FatimaZahraEchogdali
3.2 Studyarea:geomorphologyandhydro-climatologyof thetaguenitwadiwatershed
3.3 Materialsandmethods.
3.3.1Floodmappingmethod..
3.3.2FactorsuseinFHI...
3.3.3Relativeweightoffactors...
3.4
3.5
3.6
4.2 Methodology .................................................................91
4.2.1Datacollectionandanalysis... ..................................92
4.2.2ANNmodeling ......................................................93
4.2.3Networkarchitecture... ............................................94
4.2.4Rangeofvariousparametersintheprocureddata ........94
4.2.5DatausedfortrainingandtestingofANN..................95
4.2.6Developmentofsecondaryparameters .......................95
4.3 Resultanddiscussions.. ...................................................96
4.4 Modelsusedforcomparison ...........................................102
4.4.1Comparisonofmodels ..........................................103
4.5 Conclusion.. ................................................................104
4.6 Appendix1.. ................................................................105
4.7 Appendix2.. ................................................................105
4.8 Appendix3.. ................................................................105
4.9 Appendix4.. ................................................................108
4.10 Appendix5.. ................................................................108
4.11 Appendix6.. ................................................................109 References. ..........................................................................116
CHAPTER5Predictingnitrateconcentrationinriverusing
advancedartificialintelligencetechniques: extremelearningmachinesversusdeep learning...............................................................121
SalimHeddam,SungwonKim,AhmedElbeltagi, AnuragMalik,MohammadZounemat-Kermaniand OzgurKisi
5.1 Introduction... ................................................................121
5.2 Materialsandmethods... .................................................123
5.2.1Studysite. .............................................................123
5.2.2Performanceassessmentofthemodels... ....................127
5.3 Methodology. ................................................................127
5.3.1Deeplearninglongshort-termmemory(LSTM). .........127
5.3.2Extremelearningmachine(ELM) .............................129
5.3.3Supportvectorregression(SVR). ..............................130
5.3.4Gaussianprocessregression(GPR)... .........................130
5.4 Resultsanddiscussion.... .................................................131
5.4.1Dailytimescaleandscenario01forUSGS 14211720. .............................................................131
5.4.2Dailytimescaleandscenario02forUSGS 14211720. .............................................................132
5.4.3Hourlytimescaleandscenario01forUSGS 14211720 ..............................................................134
5.4.4Hourlytimescaleandscenario02forUSGS 14211720 ..............................................................138
5.4.5Discussion.............................................................138
5.5 Summaryandconclusions.. ..............................................146 Acknowledgments.................................................................149 References.... .......................................................................149
CHAPTER6Pollutedwaterbodiesremediationbyusing GISandremotesensingapproach:adeeper insight .................................................................155
DevendraSingh,SuhagaDohare,GauravYadav, HimanshuPandeyandVirendraSingh
6.1 Introduction. ..................................................................155
6.1.1Importanceofremotesensinginwaterquality managementandmonitoring ....................................157
6.1.2ImportanceofGISinwaterqualitymanagementand monitoring... .........................................................157
6.2 Roleoftheseadvancedtechniquesinmonitoring waterquality .................................................................158
6.3 Remediationofsurfacewater usingremotesensing andGIS........................................................................160
6.4 Futureoftheseadvancedtechniquesinmonitoring thequalityofwater. ........................................................163
6.5 Benefitsofsensinginmonitoringthequalityofwater ..........163
6.6 Conclusions. ..................................................................164 References.... .......................................................................165
CHAPTER7GIS-basedspatialdistributionanalysisof waterqualityassessmentusingwaterpollution indexofYamunariveratDelhi..............................171
AnishAhmed,ChitralekhaDas,SaumyaSrivastavaand SunainaSingh
7.1 Introduction. ..................................................................171
7.2 Studyarea... ..................................................................173
7.3 Materialsanddataset... ...................................................174
7.4 Methodology .................................................................174
7.4.1Grounddata. .........................................................174
7.4.2Remote-sensingdata ...............................................178
7.5 Results .........................................................................190
7.5.1BackscatteringSARdatavalues.. ..............................190
7.5.2ChlorophyllIndex ..................................................195
7.5.3Landsurfacetemperature. ........................................196
7.5.4NormalizedCoastalAerosolIndex... .........................197
7.5.5Waterpollutionindex. .............................................199
7.6 Validation .....................................................................203
7.7 Discussion.....................................................................204
7.8 Conclusion ....................................................................205 Acknowledgments. ................................................................206 References. ..........................................................................206
CHAPTER8Groundwatersustainability:roleofmonitoring, modeling,andmanagement ..................................209 SurajJenaandSoumyaranjanSahoo
8.1 Introduction... ................................................................209
8.2 Limitationsofstudy.. ......................................................211
8.3 Methodology. ................................................................212
8.3.1Studybasin ...........................................................212
8.3.2Datamonitoringandfieldcampaigns .........................213
8.4 Methods... .....................................................................216
8.4.1Groundwaterflowsimulationmodeling.. ....................216
8.4.2Decisionsupportsystem.. ........................................222
8.5 Results .........................................................................223
8.5.1Groundwaterrecharge .............................................223
8.5.2Pumpingwellboundarycondition .............................224
8.5.3Riverboundaryconditions .......................................226
8.5.4Groundwaterflowsimulation. ...................................226
8.5.5Decisionsupportsystem.. ........................................228
8.6 Conclusion ....................................................................230 References. ..........................................................................230 Furtherreading. ....................................................................234
SECTIONIIILandresourcessusceptibilityand
sustainability
CHAPTER9Landslidesusceptibilitymodelingusinga generalizedlinearmodelinatropicalriver basinoftheSouthernWesternGhats,India...........237 C.K.Prajisha,A.L.AchuandSabuJoseph
9.1 Introduction... ................................................................237
9.2 Studyarea... ..................................................................239
9.3 Materialsandmethods. ...................................................240
9.3.1Landslideinventoryandspatialdatabase..
9.3.2Lithology... .........................................................241
9.3.3Soiltexture. .........................................................241
9.3.4Landuse/landcover ..............................................242
9.3.5Slopeangle. .........................................................242
9.3.6Normalizeddifferencevegetationindex
9.3.7Slopeaspect
9.3.8Distancefromroad ...............................................243
9.3.9DistancefromLineaments.
9.3.10Topographicwetnessindex. ....................................243
9.3.11Terrainroughnessindex .........................................244
9.3.12Distancefromstream.. ..........................................244
9.3.13Streampowerindex ..............................................244
9.3.14Profilecurvature
9.3.15Planformcurvature
9.3.16Selectionofconditioningfactors..
9.3.17Multicollinearityanalysis.. .....................................246
9.3.18Generalizedlinearmodeling...
9.3.19Modelvalidation...
9.4.1Multicollinearityandvariableimportance...
9.4.2Landslidesusceptibilitymodeling..
9.4.3Modelvalidation
9.4.4Landslidesusceptibilitymap(LSM)
10.1.3Landuseandlandcoverchangeidentification usingremotesensingandgeographicalinformation Systems.. ..........................................................272
10.2 Literaturereview ..........................................................274
10.3 Materialsandmethods.. .................................................277
10.3.1Studyarea .........................................................277
10.3.2Methodologyapplied. ..........................................280
10.4 Resultsanddiscussions. .................................................281
10.4.1Identificationofchangesinlanduseandland coverofthesub-basin .........................................282
10.4.2Slopemapsoftheriverbasin. ...............................285
10.4.3Drainagestructureofthesub-basin.. ......................285
10.4.4WaterspreadareaforSriRamSagarreservoir project ..............................................................288
10.5 Conclusions. ................................................................290 References. ..........................................................................291
CHAPTER11Mappingandmonitoringlanddynamics
usinggeospatialtechniquesonPathar PratimaBlock,South24Parganas,India ............299 BijayHalder
11.1 Introduction. ................................................................299
11.2 Studyarea... ................................................................301
11.3 Materialsandmethod... .................................................303
11.3.1Datasource... ....................................................303
11.3.2Imageprocessingphase.. .....................................303
11.3.3LULCclassificationandaccuracyassessment ..........303
11.3.4Landsurfacetemperatecalculation.. ......................306
11.3.5Differentspectralindicator... ................................308
11.4 Resultanddiscussion... .................................................309
11.4.1Landtransformation.. ..........................................310
11.4.2VariationofLST. ...............................................312
11.4.3Differentgeospatialindicators...............................313
11.4.4Correlationanalysisofthisstudy. ..........................318
11.5 Challengesandsolutions................................................320
11.6 Recommendations.. ......................................................320
11.7 Conclusion.. ................................................................321 Acknowledgments. ................................................................321 References. ..........................................................................322
CHAPTER12Geospatialtechnologiestoinvestigatethe wetlandsusceptibilitytoenvironmental challengesandidentifysustainabilityoptions
RohitSambareandShwetaYadav
12.3.2Methods.
12.4.1Variationinvegetationandwaterarea..
12.4.4HydrologicalassessmentoftheHGMunits
12.4.5GeomorphologicalassessmentoftheHGMunits.....346
12.4.6VegetationassessmentoftheHGMUnits..
12.4.7Estimatedwetlandhealthscore
CHAPTER13Evaluationofspatialandtemporal
SachinDeoreJ.andShrutiPethkarS.
13.8.1Yearwiserainfallvariability... .............................367
13.8.2Seasonalvariabilityinrainfallerosivity... .............368
13.8.3Event-basedrainfallvariability............................373
13.9 Recommendations. ......................................................374
13.10 Conclusions ...............................................................375 References. ..........................................................................376
CHAPTER14Soilerosionmodelingunderfutureclimate change:acasestudyonMarinduqueIsland, Philippines ........................................................381 ArnoldR.Salvacion
14.1 Introduction. ................................................................381
14.1.1Soilerosion... ....................................................381
14.1.2Climatechange... ...............................................382
14.1.3Soilerosioninachangingclimate... ......................382
14.1.4RUSLE... ..........................................................383
14.1.5Objectiveofthestudy .........................................385
14.1.6Limitationofthestudy... .....................................385
14.2 Materialsandmethods.. .................................................385
14.2.1Studysite ..........................................................385
14.2.2Data.. ...............................................................386
14.2.3Modelingsoilerosion ..........................................387
14.3 Resultsanddiscussion.. .................................................388
14.3.1Baselineandprojectedincreaseinrainfall... ...........388
14.3.2Changesinsoilerosionrates ................................389
14.4 Potentialsolution.... ......................................................392
14.5 Conclusion.. ................................................................392 References. ..........................................................................392
SECTIONIVForestresourcesusceptibilityand sustainability
CHAPTER15Forestfiresusceptibilitymappingandrisk assessmentusingintegratedAHPand DEMATELmethodforPuruliaDistrict, WestBengal(India) ...........................................401 SanuDolui
15.1 Introduction. ................................................................401
15.2 Aboutstudyarea ..........................................................403
15.3 Materialsandmethods.. .................................................404
15.3.1Forestfirelocationpoints... ..................................404
15.3.2Methodology .....................................................405
15.3.3Dataused ..........................................................406
15.3.4Forestfireinfluencingfactors... .............................409
15.3.5IntegratedmethodscombinedDEMATEL andAHP...........................................................418
15.3.6Theanalyticalhierarchyprocessmethod.................422
15.3.7DEMATELmethod. ............................................426
15.3.8Forestfiresusceptibilitymap(FFSM)..
15.4 Resultsanddiscussion ...................................................429
15.4.1Results... ...........................................................429
15.4.2Discussion... ......................................................441
15.4.3Validationoftheforestfireriskzone... ..................443 15.5 Conclusion ..................................................................446
CHAPTER16DeclineinvegetationcoveroverKolkata city:anenvironmentalconcernfrom remote-sensingperspective................................453 SushobhanMajumdar,UdayChatterjee, AnuDavidRajandSureshKumar
16.1 Introduction .................................................................453
16.2 Studyarea. ..................................................................456
16.3 Materialsandmethods...................................................456
16.3.1Imageprocessingandanalysis. .............................457
16.3.2Supervisedclassification ......................................457
16.3.3Normalizeddifferencevegetationindex estimation..........................................................458
16.3.4Landsurfacetemperatureestimation ......................460
16.4 Resultsanddiscussion ...................................................460
16.4.1Changeinlanduse/landcoveranalysis. ..................461
16.4.2Changeinnormalizeddifferenceinvegetation indexanalysis... .................................................461
16.4.3Changeinlandsurfacetemperatureanalysis... ........465
16.4.4NDVIandLST.. .................................................465
16.4.5Recommendations... ............................................467
16.5 Conclusion ..................................................................469
CHAPTER17Understandingtheforestcoverdynamics anditshealthstatususingGIS-based analyticalhierarchyprocess:astudyfrom Alipurduardistrict,WestBengal,India ...............475 DebanjanBasak,ArghadeepBose, SubhamRoyandIndrajitRoyChowdhury
17.1 Introduction. ................................................................475
17.2 Studyarea... ................................................................478
17.3 Databaseandmethodology. ............................................479
17.3.1Normalizeddifferencevegetationindex.. ................482
17.3.2Greennessindex.. ...............................................483
17.3.3Normalizeddifferencemoistureindex ....................483
17.3.4Perpendicularvegetationindex... ...........................484
17.3.5Transformedvegetationindex ...............................484
17.3.6Soil-adjustedvegetationindex...............................484
17.3.7Normalizeddifferencebuilt-upindex .....................484
17.3.8Normalizeddifferencebarenessindex ....................485
17.3.9Multicriteriadecisionanalysis...............................485
17.4 Results... .....................................................................487
17.4.1NDVI ...............................................................487
17.4.2Greennessindex.. ...............................................487
17.4.3Normalizeddifferencemoistureindex ....................490
17.4.4PVI... ...............................................................490
17.4.5Transformedvegetationindex ...............................490
17.4.6Soil-adjustedvegetationindex...............................493
17.4.7Normalizeddifferencebuilt-upindex .....................493
17.4.8Normalizeddifferencebarenessindex ....................493
17.5 Discussion... ................................................................493
17.6 Conclusion.. ................................................................500 Acknowledgments. ................................................................501 References. ..........................................................................501
CHAPTER18Detectionofforestfragmentedareasof Sonitpur,Lakhimpur,andPapumReserve ForestusingtheFCDmodel ................................509 KaushikKharghoriaandKarishmaDutta
18.1 Introduction. ................................................................509
18.2 Limitationsofthestudy .................................................512
18.3 Materialsandmethods.. .................................................512
18.3.1Studyarea. ......................................................512
18.3.2Dataset. ...........................................................514
18.3.3Imagepreprocessing... .......................................514
18.3.4Advancedvegetationindex .................................515
18.3.5Soilbarenessindex............................................515
18.3.6Canopyshadowindex. .......................................516
18.3.7Vegetationdensityindex.. ..................................516
18.3.8Scaledshadowindex.. .......................................516
18.3.9Calculationofforestcanopydensity... ..................517
18.3.10Acquisitionofchangedetectiontool.. ..................517
18.4 Resultsanddiscussions..................................................517
18.4.1Assessmentofadvancevegetationindex .................517
18.4.2Evaluationofbaresoilindex... .............................521
18.4.3Evaluationofvegetationdensityindex. ..................525
18.4.4EvaluationofScaledShadowIndex .......................525
18.4.5Analysisofforestcanopydensity(1991 2020) .......528
18.4.6Examinationofvariouschangeswithchange detectiontool .....................................................532
18.4.7Comparativeanalysisofhighlydeforested areaamongthePapumReserveForest, LakhimpurandSonitpur ......................................536
18.5 Challengesandsolutions.. ..............................................537 18.6 Recommendations ........................................................540 18.7 Conclusions .................................................................540
Contributors
MohamedAbioui
DepartmentofEarthSciences,FacultyofSciences,IbnZohrUniversity,Agadir, Morocco
A.L.Achu
DepartmentofRemoteSensingandGIS,KeralaUniversityofFisheriesand OceanStudies(KUFOS),Kochi,Kerala,India
AnishAhmed
HaryanaSpaceApplicationCentre,CRIDDepartment,Hisar,Haryana,India
NavedAhsan
DepartmentofCivilEngineering,JamiaMilliaIslamiaUniversity,NewDelhi,India
ZeenatAra
MaulanaAzadNationalUrduUniversity,Hyderabad,Telangana,India
DebanjanBasak
DepartmentofGeographyandAppliedGeography,UniversityofNorthBengal, Siliguri,WestBengal,India
ArghadeepBose
DepartmentofGeographyandAppliedGeography,UniversityofNorthBengal, Siliguri,WestBengal,India
SaidBoutaleb
DepartmentofEarthSciences,FacultyofSciences,IbnZohrUniversity,Agadir, Morocco
UdayChatterjee
DepartmentofGeography,BhatterCollege,Dantan(VidyasagarUniversity), PaschimMidnapore,WestBengal,India
IndrajitRoyChowdhury
DepartmentofGeographyandAppliedGeography,UniversityofNorthBengal, Siliguri,WestBengal,India
ChitralekhaDas
NorthEasternSpaceApplicationCentre,DepartmentofSpace,Governmentof India,Meghalaya,India
AnuDavidRaj
AgricultureandSoilsDepartment,IndianInstituteofRemoteSensing(IIRS), IndianSpaceResearchOrganization(ISRO),Dehradun,Uttarakhand,India
SachinDeoreJ.
SNDTWomen’sUniversity,DepartmentofGeography,Pune,Maharashtra,India
SuhagaDohare
JiwajiUniversity,Gwalior,MadhyaPradesh,India
SanuDolui
DepartmentofGeography,TheUniversityofBurdwan,Burdwan,WestBengal, India
KarishmaDutta
DepartmentofGeography,SchoolofHumanandEnvironmentalSciences,North EasternHillUniversity,Shillong,Meghalaya,India
FatimaZahraEchogdali
DepartmentofEarthSciences,FacultyofSciences,IbnZohrUniversity,Agadir, Morocco
AhmedElbeltagi
AgriculturalEngineeringDepartment,FacultyofAgriculture,Mansoura University,Mansoura,Egypt
FaridFaik
DepartmentofEarthSciences,FacultyofSciences,IbnZohrUniversity,Agadir, Morocco
BijayHalder
DepartmentofRemoteSensingandGIS,VidyanagarUniversity,Midnapore,West Bengal,India
SalimHeddam
FacultyofScience,AgronomyDepartment,HydraulicsDivision,Laboratoryof ResearchinBiodiversityInteractionEcosystemandBiotechnology,University20 Aou ˆ t1955,Skikda,Algeria
MounaId-Belqas
DepartmentofEarthSciences,FacultyofSciences,IbnZohrUniversity,Agadir, Morocco
MustaphaIkirri
DepartmentofEarthSciences,FacultyofSciences,IbnZohrUniversity,Agadir, Morocco
SurajJena
SchoolofInfrastructure,IndianInstituteofTechnologyBhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar,Odisha,India
SabuJoseph
DepartmentofEnvironmentalSciences,UniversityofKerala, Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala,India
KaushikKharghoria
DepartmentofGeography,SchoolofHumanandEnvironmentalSciences,North EasternHillUniversity,Shillong,Meghalaya,India
SabaKhurshid
DepartmentofCivilEngineering,NationalInstituteofTechnology,Patna,Bihar, India
SungwonKim
DepartmentofRailroadConstructionandSafetyEngineering,Dongyang University,Yeongju,RepublicofKorea
OzgurKisi
DepartmentofCivilEngineering,TechnicalUniversityofLubeck,Lubeck, Germany;CivilEngineeringDepartment,IliaStateUniversity,Tbilisi,Georgia
SureshKumar
Agriculture,Forestry&EcologyGroup,IndianInstituteofRemoteSensing(IIRS), IndianSpaceResearchOrganization(ISRO),Dehradun,Uttarakhand,India
SushobhanMajumdar
JadavpurUniversity,DepartmentofGeography,Kolkata,WestBengal,India
AnuragMalik
PunjabAgriculturalUniversity,RegionalResearchStation,Bathinda,Punjab, India
M.GopalNaik
DepartmentofCivilEngineering,UniversityCollegeofEngineeringOsmania UniversityHyderabad,Telangana,India
HimanshuPandey
Dr.YSPUHFNauni,Solan,HimachalPradesh,India
ShrutiPethkarS.
KarmaveerBhauraoPatilCollege,DepartmentofGeography,Vashi, Maharashtra,India
C.K.Prajisha
DepartmentofEnvironmentalSciences,UniversityofKerala, Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala,India
SubhamRoy
DepartmentofGeographyandAppliedGeography,UniversityofNorthBengal, Siliguri,WestBengal,India
SoumyaranjanSahoo
SchoolofWaterResources,IndianInstituteofTechnologyKharagpur,Kharagpur, WestBengal,India
ArnoldR.Salvacion
DepartmentofCommunityandEnvironmentalResourcePlanning,Universityof thePhilippinesLosBan ˜ os,CollegeofHumanEcology,LosBan ˜ os,Philippines
RohitSambare
MasterofTechnology,NationalInstituteofHydrology,ResearchManagement andOutreachDivision,Roorkee,Uttarakhand,India
DevendraSingh
B.N.CollegeofEngineeringandTechnology,Lucknow,UttarPradesh,India
SunainaSingh
HaryanaSpaceApplicationCentre,CRIDDepartment,Hisar,Haryana,India
VirendraSingh
MaulanaAzadMedicalCollege,NewDelhi,India
SaumyaSrivastava
KumaunUniversity,SSJCampus,Almora,Uttarakhand,India
AsmaSultana
DepartmentofCivilEngineering,MuffakhamJahCollegeofEngineeringand Technology,Hyderabad,Telangana,India
QamarSultana
DepartmentofCivilEngineering,MuffakhamJahCollegeofEngineeringand Technology,Hyderabad,Telangana,India
AbderrahmaneWanaim
DepartmentofEarthSciences,FacultyofSciences,IbnZohrUniversity,Agadir, Morocco
GauravYadav
InstituteofLiverandBiliarySciences,NewDelhi,India
ShwetaYadav
NationalInstituteofHydrology,Roorkee,Uttarakhand,India
MohammadZounemat-Kermani
DepartmentofWaterEngineering,ShahidBahonarUniversityofKerman, Kerman,Iran
Foreword

Soil,water,andforestarethemostvaluableand essentialnaturalresourcesforexistenceandsurvival ofhumanbeingsaswellasanimals.Theyserveas keyelementsingoverningthebasicprocesses,functioning,andecosystemservicesoflandontheearth. Landprovidestheprincipalbasisforhumanlivelihoodsandtheirwell-beingincludingthesupplyof food,fresh-water,habitat,andotherseveral ecosystemservicesaswellasbiodiversity.The bookentitled“Water,LandandForestSusceptibility andSustainability:GeospatialApproaches& Modeling”editedbyUdayChatterjee,Biswajeet Pradhan,SureshKumar,SouravSaha,andMohammadZakwanprovidesacomprehensiveinformation onapproachesofsustainabilityaddressingthewater,land,andforestresources. Today,geospatialmodelingapproachesincludingspatialanalysishaveemerged asthemostpowerfultoolandtechniquestointerpretandanalyzethesusceptibility andsustainabilityofthesenaturalresourcesatpresentandinfutureclimatechange scenarios.Emergenceofadvancedstatisticalmodelsandmachinelearningtechniquesinrecenttimeshaveofferednewopportunitiestoanalyzetheminsynergetic waytodevelopsustainablelandmanagementtoaccelerateimprovementinresource useefficiencyforsustainabledevelopment.
Thereisunprecedentedpressureonwater,land,andforestresources.Hundreds ofmillionsofpeoplearoundtheworlddependdirectlyonforestsfortheirlivelihood andfoodsecurity.FoodandAgricultureOrganizationoftheUnitedNations(FAO) estimatedaneedof50%morefoodby2050tomeetthedemandofrapidlygrowing populationsinmanycountriesoftheworld.Thus,thereistremendouspressureon agriculturallandtomeetthechallenge.Itrequireshighattentiononsoilsandwater resourcesfortheirsustainability.Theseresourcesarevulnerabletoongoingclimate change.Sustainablelandmanagementcancontributetoreducingthenegative impactsofmultiplestresses,includingclimatechangeonecosystemservicesand livelihoodofthepeople.Human-inducedacceleratedlanddegradation,waterscarcity,andclimatechangemaycontributetowardhighriskofincreasingagricultural productionanddeteriorationofecosystemservicesinthecomingyears.
Landdegradationanddesertificationhavebeentriggeredlargelyduetounsustainablelanduseaswellasdeforestationandhaveemergedasmostpressing problemsfacedbytheworldtoday.Nearly29%globallandisexperiencing human-inducedlanddegradation,thusaffectingmorethan2.6billionpeople.Soil erosioninducedbywateristhemajorcauseoflanddegradationintheworld.
Itreducesproductionpotential,accesstonutritiousfood,biodiversity,andenvironmentalservices.Landdegradationisalsoconsideredadriverofclimatechange throughemissionofgreenhousegases(GHGs)andreducingcarbonsinkcapacity. Increasinglandandwaterproductivityiscrucialforachievingfoodsecurity,sustainableproduction,andsustainabledevelopmentgoals(SDGs).Climatechangecan exacerbatelanddegradationprocessesthroughincreasesinrainfallintensity,flooding,increaseintemperature,droughtfrequency,aswellasseverity,dryspells,and sea-levelrise.Landdegradationandclimatechangemayhaveseriousimplications forsustainabilityofnaturalresourceandlivelihoodofthepeople.
Waterresourcemanagementwillbethemostchallengingtaskforfuturegenerationsastheyaredepletingwithhighpaceandreporteddrasticreductioninpercapitaavailability.Ithasbeenintensivelyexploitedinmostofthecountriesintheworld. Increasingpopulationandindustrialdevelopmenthavefurthercausedwaterpollutionanddeteriorationofwaterquality.Forestsastheessentialcomponentofthenaturalenvironmentarehometomorethan 3/4 oftheworld’slifeonland.Theyplaya criticalroleinmitigatingclimatechangeastheyactasacarbonsink.Itessentially contributestoregulatewatercycle,carbonsequestration,andbiodiversityconservation.Deforestationandforestfirescausesignificantdamagetoenvironmentand biodiversity.Theyalsoprotectvitalwatershedsandreduceriskofthenatural disasters,includingfloodsandlandslides.
Thebookdiscussesonwater,land,andforestsustainabilityissuesindetailwith respecttogeospatialcontext.Thechaptersarewrittenbyvariousexpertsfrom prestigiousinstitutions.Ingeneral,thisbookwillbeveryusefulforresearchers, academicians,policymakers,andunder-graduateandpost-graduatestudentsof soilscience,environmentalscience,forestry,ecology,andclimatesciencetounderstandthesenaturalresourcesinintegratedmannerespeciallywithrespecttosusceptibilityandsustainabilityoftheseresources.Iwouldliketoappreciateand congratulatetheeditorsforhighlightingthesemostemergingissuesinavery comprehensivemanner.
Dehradun April5,2022
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