SDSN Degree College, Lucknow.
Online published on 19 November, 2011.
Land is one of the most precious natural resource which plays a decisive role in determining socio-economic and cultural development of man. Land use is the surface utilization of all developed and vacant land on specific point, at given lime time space. Human activities that make lise of and hence change or retain attribute of land cover is considered proximate source of change. The range from the initial conversion of natural forest into cropland to on going grassland destruction. Such action arise as a consequences of a wide array of social objective, including the need for food clotlz shelter and recreation, these therefore cannot be understood independent of the underlying driving forces that motivate and constrain production and consumption.