Impact of landuse on environmental quality due to urbanization a case study tirumangalam taluk Madurai

Abstract

Land is a major constituent of the lithosphere and it is the source of many materials essential to man and other organisms A large amount of natural lands have been converted to urban lands and the prior land use patterns are also getting changed in their activities With rapid population growth and migration from rural to urban places agricultural land and water bodies around the urban areas are rapidly vanishing giving place to other land uses like settlements and industrial development This leads to environmental degradation impacting on environmental quality causing pollution in the atmosphere affecting ground water potential and depleting the special resources LU LC is an important component in understanding the interactions of the human activities with the environment and thus it is necessary to stimulate changes LU LC is a major issue of global environmental change Sustainable land management is a critical challenge of newlineearth system and resources of the land Protection of productive agricultural lands has become a major priority in many regions of the world newline