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Scientific Publishers Measuring Agricultural Sustainability by Kaushalya Ramachandran
The book is essentially a comprehensive reference book and can serve as handbook, manual and field guide. The book presents 51 sustainability indicators with scorecard that can be used as handbook by department staff and students involved in Natural Resources Management activities. The book presents detailed questionnaire that can be used for field and socio-economic survey and serve as field guide. The book consists of Jal-DSS manual explaining the manner in which the DSS can be used to measure agricultural sustainability by monitoring and evaluating watershed projects. It would be useful to engineering students in Soil & Water Conservation and Computer Sciences who presently study Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) developed in Texas A & M. Jal-DSS provides a comprehensive Indian tool to assess the impact of watershed projects and measure agricultural sustainability. The book can serve as a significant supplementary reading material for students, academics and researchers of Geo-informatics, Geography, Computer Science, in B.Tech and M.Tech courses in Soil & Water Conservation, Geo-informatics and Computer Sciences in Universities and Research Institutions. Preface Acknowledgement Foreword About Authors Abstract 1 Introduction 1.1 Study Area 1.2 Location & Resource Base of Pamana Watershed in Rangareddy District, Telangana 1.3 Location & resource base of Chintapatla village watersheds in Rangareddy district, Telangana 1.4 Location & resource base of Gollapalli village watershed 1.5 Location & resource base of Dontanpalli watersheds 2 Watershed Development Program in India – Salient features 2.1 Agricultural Sustainability through Watershed Development Program in Indian Rainfed regions 2.1.1 Change in mode of WDP implementation 2.1.2 Guiding Principles for WDP under Common Guidelines implemented in 2008 2.1.3 WDP Management under Common Guidelines of 2008 2.1.4 WDP in Andhra Pradesh since Inception 2.2 Recent Financial allocations for Wate