| Land-use and land-cover change, as one of the main driving forces of global
environmental change, is central to the sustainable development debate. Land use and landcover
changes have impacts on a wide range of environmental and landscape attributes including
the quality of water, land and air resources, ecosystem processes and function. This paper
concentrates on spatial pattern of land use land cover in seven taluks of the Haveri district using
satellite imagery of LISS IV 2014. The paper concludes that, in the total geographical area
majority of the land is used for agriculture i.e. 74.93%. The area under forest is 9.88%, it is
followed by built up area is 8.02%,waste land 3.6%,land used for other perposes is 3.31% and
hardly 0.3% of the area is under water bodies in the district. If you compare the stastics of the
earlier records it shows that, built up area, agriculture area is increasing whereas area under
forest, water bodies , waste land and water bodies are decreasing. |