SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES IN THE URBAN GREEN SPACES OF LAHORE-PAKISTAN
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0022-06-22
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Geography department kinnaird college
Abstract
Vegetation cover of Lahore is decreasing day by day. The main reason behind this is urbanization
which is growing with every passing day. In 2000, population of Lahore was 5576000 and in 2020
it increased to 12642000. Increased population requires more space to live which leads to declining
in green spaces of this metropolitan city. Rapid urbanization has several other problems as well
but this research has been done to focus on vegetation and its impact on environment. Urban green
spaces have a great impact on mitigate the rising temperature of land and as well as air. In this
context, this study has analyzed and assess the changes in vegetation cover of Lahore, LST and
the variation in climatic pattern over the past 20 years. This assessment is being done through
various indices like NDVI, LST and the data collected from MET office which concluded that
there has been a drastic change in urban green spaces which has an impact on climatic temperature
as well.