Geographical analysis
Department of Geography & GIS
Department of Geography & GIS
Geographical analysis
Year: 2020, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 42-50
Original Article
Holly Dehingia1, P Surendra2
1M.Sc. Student, Department of Geography, Bangalore University, Bengaluru, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Bangalore University, Bengaluru, India
Received Date:22 September 2020, Accepted Date:15 November 2020
In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse the Spatio-temporal changes of forest area in Gujarat state. This study is based on secondary data collected from the Gujarat forest department and forest survey of India for the period of 2001-02 to 2018-19. The trends in forest area of Gujarat state from 2001-02 with 9.7% and in the year 2018-19, thus making the forest area 11.4% of the total geographical area. The forest area under reserved forest 75.3%, protected forest 2.0% and unclassed forest 23.7% of Gujarat during the period of 2001-02 and 2018-19 reserved forest 66.7%, protected forest 13.3% and unclassed forest 20.1%. The study covers 33 districts of Gujarat state which come under the variation in spatio-temporal changes in the forest area of different divisions during the period of 2001-02, 2010-11 and 2018-19.
Keywords: Forest area; temporal changes
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