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Research article
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30 Nov 2015
Research article |
| 30 Nov 2015
Identification of areas vulnerable to soil erosion risk in India using GIS methods
H. Biswas
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre, Hospet Road, Cantonment, Bellary, Karnataka, India
A. Raizada
ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre, Hospet Road, Cantonment, Bellary, Karnataka, India
D. Mandal
ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, 218, Kaulagarh Road, Dehradun 248 195, Uttarakhand, India
S. Kumar
ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre, Hospet Road, Cantonment, Bellary, Karnataka, India
S. Srinivas
National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Regional Centre, Hebbal, Karnataka, India
P. K. Mishra
ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, 218, Kaulagarh Road, Dehradun 248 195, Uttarakhand, India
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The paper presents a simple and novel approach to prioritize districts (or subregions) of a state (or region) for implementing soil conservation measures through computation of weighted soil erosion risk (WSER), by deducting soil loss tolerance limit values from soil erosion rates. WSER values obtained for the districts of Telangana state, India, led us to identify Adilabad, Warangal, and Khammam as the districts calling for the urgent attention of policymakers for natural resource conservation.
The paper presents a simple and novel approach to prioritize districts (or subregions) of a...
