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The document discusses feedback from a WB1 session on mapping issues and drivers and policies related to sustainable development sites. Follow up activities include distributing maps to study sites for review, writing an explanatory note on the mapping method, and publishing papers on the mapping and drivers/policies work. Challenges addressed include how to visualize combinations of degradation types in mappings and how to display complex impact data. Next steps include addressing these challenges, performing area calculations and analysis, improving quantification and verification, and using remote sensing and modeling.
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Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
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