Question

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A city is experiencing over-exploitation of its grazing areas. The city council is looking for a consultancy organization that can suggest viable solutions. Your research team is bidding for this job, and you are responsible for the methodology section in the bidding document.

Carefully explain what you would include in the methodology section. Your explanation must include the details of the method (or methods) you choose, the data that need to be collected, the assumptions or restrictions you may want to make, and also the strengths and weaknesses of the method(s).

Answer 1

Although ecosystem changes in many ways. This section contains to see causes of over exploitation of grazing areas.

Methodology- our methodologies contains broadly three question

1) whether the areas is under govt or not? Is grazing area a public property

2) Temperature of particular areas. As dry climate causes leas development of green vegetation.

3) How many people live around grazing areas and how many people have livestock business?

To check all of this first we need to check govt records of lands. second to check temperature of area, we can use monthly satellite imaging of that area. From this we get to know in which month dry climate ocuur so that govt use artificial method to provide water. Another method used will be NDVI application. NDVI application is basically Normalised difference vegetation index is a numerical indicator that uses to analyses remote sensing measurements and asses whether target being observed contain live green vegetation or not. This method will help to know quality of vegetation.

Third method include basic survey or questionnaire to ask people who live around grazing areas. This will include type of business they do.