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Geospatial assessment of tourism impact on land environment of Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

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Title Geospatial assessment of tourism impact on land environment
of Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
 
Creator Dey, Jaydip
Sakhre, Saurabh
Gupta, Vikash
Vijay, Ritesh
Pathak, Sunil
Biniwale, Rajesh
Kumar, Rakesh
 
Subject Environmental Impact
Geology, Hydrology etc.
 
Description India’s tourism industry has emerged as a
leading industry with a potential to grow further in the
next few decades. Dehradun, one of the famous tourist
places in India located in the state of Uttarakhand,
attracts tourist from all over the country and abroad.
The surge in tourist number paved the way for new
infrastructure projects like roads, buildings, and hotels,
which in turn affects the topography of the mountainous
region. In this study, remote sensing and GIS techniques
have been used to assess the impact of tourism on the
land environment of Dehradun. Satellite images of the
years 1972, 2000, and 2016 were analyzed using objectbased
image analysis (OBIA) to derive land use and
land cover (LULC) and ASTER-DEM (Digital ElevationModel)
was used to determine the topography of the
study area. LULC classification includes built-up, vegetation,
forest, scrub, agriculture, plantation, and water
body. The slope of the region was categorized as gentle,
moderate, strong, extreme, steep, and very steep. To
assess the sprawl of built-up on high terrain land,
built-up class of LULC was overlaid on slope classes.
The overlay analysis reveals that due to increase in
tourism, the land use in terms of the built-up area has
been extended from gentle slope to very steep slope. The
haphazard construction on the extreme, steep, and very
steep slope is prone to landslide and other natural disasters.
For this, landslide susceptibility maps have also
been generated using multicriteria evaluation (MCE)
techniques to prevent haphazard construction and to
assist in further planning of Dehradun City. This study
suggests that a proper developmental plan of the city is
essential which follows the principles of optimumuse of
land and sustainable tourism.
 
Publisher Springer
 
Date 2018
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://neeri.csircentral.net/1193/1/Dey2018_Article_GeospatialAssessmentOfTourismI.pdf
Dey, Jaydip and Sakhre, Saurabh and Gupta, Vikash and Vijay, Ritesh and Pathak, Sunil and Biniwale, Rajesh and Kumar, Rakesh (2018) Geospatial assessment of tourism impact on land environment of Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 190 (4). p. 181. ISSN 0167-6369, ESSN: 1573-2959
 
Relation https://link.springer.com/journal/10661
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