Measuring Agricultural Sustainability

Contents: Preface. Foreword. 1. Introduction. 2. Watershed development program in India – salient features. 3. Using watershed framework to evaluate agricultural sustainability. 4. Land utilization pattern in selected watersheds. 5. Land utilization pattern in selected watersheds. 6. Methodology for measuring agricultural sustainability through implementation of watershed projects. 7. Development of Jal-DSS software. 8. Spatial evaluation of watershed projects using raster calculator. 9. Conclusion

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 and Water Conservation, Geo-informatics and Computer Sciences in Universities and Research Institutions.