Strategic Approach for Sustainable Land Use in an Emerging Country : Case of India
Raghu Babu Nukala, Dieter Mutz
Land is a limited resource and yet an indispensable resource for meeting the social, economic and environmental demands and targets. The growing development associated by the growing population and the associated urbanization and industrialization is increasing pressure on land resource. Due to unplanned and haphazard use of land resources, land gets increasingly affected by the conflicting land uses and competition of mutually exclusive uses, besides posing serious concerns and negative impacts. The concerns can even become more serious in an emerging country like India, which has at present over 17% of worldds population living on 2.6% of the worldds geographical area. Land use planning and management is a known strategy for achieving sustainable development. A properly prepared land use plan based on sound scientific and technical procedures, and land utilisation strategies can summarize rationally the future demands. This accompanied by a strong planning process, where communities and various stakeholders are involved, can strengthen the decision making process on allocation and utilisation of land resources. The present paper details a strategic approach for sustainable land use for an emerging country like India to achieve its socio, economic and environmental goals and targets.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2015
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