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Today, when we are faced with the crucial problem of relentless pressure of human and cattle population on the limited land resources, attended by widespread poverty, malnutrition and low economic level, it seems imperative to undertake a factual survey of these resources to ascertain the use and misuse of land, its actual and potential resources and their proper utilisation and conservation with more emphasis on Problem Areas. The volume aims at mapping, describing and analysing the spatial and temporal aspects of land-use pattern of a Pioneer Fringe the Tarai tract of eastern Uttar Pradesh which has remained a forbidden and underdeveloped land for centuries and has been thus a great challenge before the land-use planners. The study deals with the physical and cultural factors affecting land-use pattern and dynamics of land-use, land-use survey of sample villages and the problems and prospects of the land-use in the region. The book should prove of immense value to land-use planers, administrators research scholars and students who wish to keep abreast of the recent trends and future orientation of the land-use pattern in different parts of the country. About the Author Dr. S.C. Sharma (b. 1936) is at present Reader and Head of Geography Department in M.L.K. (P.G.) College, Balrampur. With a long teaching experience of about 30 years, Dr. Sharma has been actively engaged in research work and has published more than forty research papers. He has produced 6 Ph. D. s and participated in several national and international seminars and conferences. He has oganised a national seminar on Utilisation of Wastelands for Sustainable Development in India and is the chief editor of its proceedings which have been published recently by Concept Publishing Co., New Delhi. A life-member of various geographical societies and associations, Dr. Sharma is the Vice-President of Association of Marketing Geographers of India, Gorakhpur and Association of Geographers, India, Lucknow.