Detailing rural land use of Coastal Bangladesh: A micro-level study

Bangladesh is a small country of 147,570 km2 with a population of around 160 million. Using each parcel of land prudently is crucial for proper development. Information on existing land use is thus of utmost importance for better use of land. Present researches on land use are confined mainly to c...

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Main Authors:	Tasnuba Jerin, Asif Ishtiaque
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Language:	English
Published:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2014
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spelling	ukm-74612016-12-14T06:44:10Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7461/ Detailing rural land use of Coastal Bangladesh: A micro-level study Tasnuba Jerin, Asif Ishtiaque, Bangladesh is a small country of 147,570 km2 with a population of around 160 million. Using each parcel of land prudently is crucial for proper development. Information on existing land use is thus of utmost importance for better use of land. Present researches on land use are confined mainly to change detection or pattern analysis of mainly urban areas . As rural areas comprise more settlement areas than urban, this study attempts to depict the existing plot-to-plot use of land in rural areas of coastal Bangladesh. Two union parishad were selected randomly and base map of those areas were collected. For collection of detailed land use data, plot to plot survey was conducted by using fractional code method. Results show that agriculture is dominant in one union, and residential area is dominant in another area and like other parts of the country three seasonal variation of crop production occur here. Overall area proportions of the studied areas are also provided. The overall exercise provides a detailed and comprehensive scenario of the area which should help policy makers to plan accordingly, and fills a literature gap on Bangladesh land use. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2014-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7461/1/1ok.geografia-julai2014-tasnuba-edam.pdf Tasnuba Jerin, and Asif Ishtiaque, (2014) Detailing rural land use of Coastal Bangladesh: A micro-level study. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 10 (3). pp. 1-17. ISSN 2180-2491 http://www.ukm.my/geografia/v2/index.php
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description	Bangladesh is a small country of 147,570 km2 with a population of around 160 million. Using each parcel of land prudently is crucial for proper development. Information on existing land use is thus of utmost importance for better use of land. Present researches on land use are confined mainly to change detection or pattern analysis of mainly urban areas . As rural areas comprise more settlement areas than urban, this study attempts to depict the existing plot-to-plot use of land in rural areas of coastal Bangladesh. Two union parishad were selected randomly and base map of those areas were collected. For collection of detailed land use data, plot to plot survey was conducted by using fractional code method. Results show that agriculture is dominant in one union, and residential area is dominant in another area and like other parts of the country three seasonal variation of crop production occur here. Overall area proportions of the studied areas are also provided. The overall exercise provides a detailed and comprehensive scenario of the area which should help policy makers to plan accordingly, and fills a literature gap on Bangladesh land use.
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title	Detailing rural land use of Coastal Bangladesh: A micro-level study
title_short	Detailing rural land use of Coastal Bangladesh: A micro-level study
title_full	Detailing rural land use of Coastal Bangladesh: A micro-level study
title_fullStr	Detailing rural land use of Coastal Bangladesh: A micro-level study
title_full_unstemmed	Detailing rural land use of Coastal Bangladesh: A micro-level study
title_sort	detailing rural land use of coastal bangladesh: a micro-level study
publisher	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi
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Detailing rural land use of Coastal Bangladesh: A micro-level study

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