Impacts of urbanization on land use /cover changes and its probable implications on local climate and groundwater level

Given that urbanization is considered as one of the most significant anthropogenic alterations of the environmental framework, the present study attempts to understand spatiotemporal characteristics of urban growth and its implications for the hydro-meteorological parameters in the Howrah Municipal...

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Main Authors: Suman Patra, Satiprasad Sahoo, Pulak Mishra, Subhash Chandra Mahapatra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-09-01
Series:Journal of Urban Management
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2226585617300122