Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Abstract

Human society has been utilising the natural resources from the dawn of its civilisation in varying intensity to improve their living standard. Over the course of time, the extraction of the amenities required for such developmental purpose, affects the resource use pattern and access. This has resulted in a change in the existing land use practices in the region. Thus, socio-economic setting of any region and the land use are interlinked and affect each other. This article presents a new socio-economic index (SEI) to quantify the socio-economic status of any river basin. UNDP’s Human Development Index of 1990 has been used and modified to compute the index, in which various aspects of human life are considered and collected from National Survey Samples to reflect on the basin’s land use scenario. Results of the analysis are presented on Narmada River basin as a case study.

Keywords

socio-economic development human development index land use change human drivers of change population growth

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Adamowicz

W.L.

Akcakaya

H. Resit

Arcenas

Agustin.

Babu

Suresh.

Balk

Deborah.

Confalonieri

Ulisses

. (2005). Analytical approaches for assessing ecosystem condition and human well-being. Ecosystems and human well-being: Current state and trends millennium ecosystem assessment.

Adhikari

Pramod

(2006). Socio-economic indexes for areas: Introduction, use and future directions. Australian bureau of statistics embargo: 11.30 am (Canberra time) Thursday 28 Sept 2006.

Angelsen

Kaimowitz

(1999). Agricultural technologies and tropical deforestation. CABI Publishing (Oxon, UK) in association with Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (Jakarta, Indonesia).

Briassoulis

(2008). Land-use policy and planning, theorizing, and modeling: Lost in translation, found in complexity? Environment and Planning B-Planning & Design, 35, 16–33.

Contreras-Hermosilla

Arnoldo

(2000). The underlying causes of forest decline. CIFOR. Occasional Paper No. 30. ISSN 0854-9818, June 2000.

Das

Abhiman

(1999). Socio-economic development in India: A regional analysis. Reserve Bank of India. Development and Society, 28(2), December 1999, 313–45.

Davis

Peter. McLeod

Keith. Ransom

Miriam.

Ongley

Patrick

(1997). The New Zealand Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status (NZSEI). Published in October 1997 by statistics New Zealand.

Fukuda-Parr

Sakiko

. (2003). The human development paradigm: Operationalizing sen’s ideas on capabilities. Feminist Economics 9(2–3), 2003, 301–317.

Lambin

Eric F.

Geist

Helmut J.

Leper

Erika

. (2003). Dynamics of landuse and land cover change in tropical regions. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 2003. 28: 205–241. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.energy.28.050302.105459

10.

Noorbakhsh

Farhad

. (1998). The human development index: some technical issues and alternative indices. Journal of International Development, 10(5), July/August 1998, 589–605.

11.

Panayotou

Theodore

. (1995). Economic instruments for environmental management and sustainable development, United Nations Environment Programme. Environmental Economics Series Paper No. 16.

12.

Verburg

P.H.

Koning

G.H.J. de.

Kok

Veldkamp

Fresco

L.O.

Bouma

(1997). Quantifying the spatial structure of landuse change—An integrated approach. ITC Journal, Special edition: Proceedings of the conference on geo-information for sustainable land management. Enschede.

A New Socio–economic Index for Modelling Land Use and Land Cover Change

Abstract

Keywords

Get full access to this article

References