@Research Paper <#LINE#>Assessment of Urban Sprawl and its Impact on Natural Environment in and around Jaipur city, Rajsthan, India<#LINE#>Pushpendra@Singh Rajpoot,Ajay@Kumar,P@,Gyanendra Kumar@Pandey<#LINE#>1-6<#LINE#>1.ISCA-IRJES-2014-007.pdf<#LINE#> Department of Physical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidyalaya, Chitrakoot, MP- 485780, INDIA<#LINE#>14/3/2014<#LINE#>8/4/2014<#LINE#>Study of urbanization of Jaipur city and its impact on natural environment includes remotely sensed data which is collected from LANDSAT ei. MSS for 1973, TM for 1998 and ETM+ for 2011 and other secondary data such as population data is collected from census of India. Land use/land cover maps are prepared by hybrid classification (visual interpretation and unsupervised classification) and calculate the statistics for different years with the help of ERDAS software. Land use data shows that built-up area is increasing at very fast rate and reached 19479.2 hact in 2011 from 1854.36 hact in 1973. Population is also increasing with time and highest growth 65.59 % is found in 1941-51 and follow 62.77 % in 1991-2001. Other land use types such as crop land, waste land and scrub/grass land is showing decreasing trend with time. The expansion of built-up area is at the cost of de-expansion of crop land, waste land and scrub land. This type land use changing trend is alarm for natural environment and agricultural land. 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Box 13743, Sana’a, YEMEN @ Yemen Gas Company, Sana’s, YEMEN <#LINE#>23/3/2014<#LINE#>7/4/2014<#LINE#>Depletion of groundwater resources has become a major concern in many parts of Yemen today. The competitive overdrawing of groundwater is compounded by the lack of governance and institutions. Under current lawless conditions, better off farmers have captured larger share of groundwater through uncontrolled deep well drilling, which had lead to both shallow groundwater and springs available to poorer farmers to be depleted or exhausted. Although groundwater use is driving rural growth, groundwater mining is not only unsustainable, it is also inequitable. Understanding interest and influential power between various stakeholders thus become critical to the task of interpreting resistance to change in ground water control policy/implementation. Each specific measure of controlling groundwater extraction tends to raise its own problems. 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