Land Reclamation and Restoration Strategies for Sustainable Development

Geospatial Technology Based Approach

1st Edition, Volume 10 - November 17, 2021
Imprint: Elsevier
Editors: Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Uday Chatterjee, Anil Kashyap, Pravat Kumar Shit
Language: English
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Land Reclamation and Restoration Strategies for Sustainable Development: Geospatial Technology Based Approach, Volume Ten covers spatial mapping, modeling and risk assessment in land hazards issues and sustainable management. Each section in the book explores state-of-art techniques using commercial, open source and statistical software for mapping and modeling, along with case studies that illustrate modern image processing techniques and computational algorithms. A special focus is given on recent trends in data mining techniques. This book will be of particular interest to students, researchers and professionals in the fields of earth science, applied geography, and those in the environmental sciences.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Foreword
Prologue
Chapter 1. Emergence and challenges of land reclamation: issues and prospect
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Land reclamation scenario
1.3. Human ecology in land reclamation
1.4. Impact of land reclamation
1.5. Challenges of land reclamation
1.6. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Stages of land reclamation and their impact on the fluvio-geomorphological environment of Indian Sundarbans with special reference to Matla–Bidyadhari Interfluve
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Objectives
2.3. Materials and methods
2.4. Locational significance of the study area
2.5. Fluvio-geomorphological environment of Indian Sundarbans
2.6. Land reclamation in Sundarbans
2.7. Consequences of land reclamation in Sundarbans
2.8. Conclusion
Chapter 3. Catchment health degradation resulting from urban expansion using remote sensing and GIS techniques in parts of South Africa
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Materials and methods
3.3. Results and discussion
3.4. Discussions
3.5. Conclusions
Chapter 4. A geospatial appraisal of urban expansion within the Teesta-Mahananda interfluve in and around Siliguri town, West Bengal, India
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Materials and methods
4.3. Results
4.4. Discussion
4.5. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Wasteland reclamation and geospatial solution: existing scenario and future strategy
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Role of geospatial technology
5.3. Soil erosion and reclamation process
5.4. Gully erosion and reclamation
5.5. Deforestation and reclamation
5.6. Overgrazing and reclamation
5.7. Loss of organic content and reclamation
5.8. Flood/landslide and reclamation
5.9. Salinization and reclamation
5.10. Local/diffuse contamination and reclamation
5.11. Biodiversity and reclamation
5.12. Mining and reclamation using geospatial tool
5.13. Recommendation
Chapter 6. Mapping of wastelands and significance of morphometric analysis in wasteland management—a remote sensing and GIS approach
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Study area
6.3. Geology
6.4. Materials and methods
6.5. Results and discussion
6.6. Use of morphometric analysis in wastelands management
6.7. Relationship between wastelands categories and morphometric properties
6.8. Subbasins level prioritization of PRC
6.9. Conclusions
Chapter 7. Land reclamation open cast coal mine under semiarid conditions—a field-based observation
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Materials and methods
7.3. Results
7.4. Discussion
7.5. Conclusions
Chapter 8. Assessment of mining derelict land using multicriteria decision-making technique and approaches toward sustainable regeneration—a case study in Jamuria CD block, West Bengal (India)
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Study area
8.3. Data source
8.4. Methodology
8.5. Results and discussion
8.6. A case studies on Churulia open cast region
8.7. Sustainable approach toward regeneration
8.8. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Alternative use of abandoned mines for geotourism: a case study using geoinformatics
9.1. Introduction
9.2. The study area
9.3. Materials and methods
9.4. Results and discussions
9.5. Conclusion
Chapter 10. A geospatial approach to analyze the stability of mine overburden dump over reclaimed land
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Location of Khottadih OCP
10.3. Materials and methods
10.4. Results and discussion
10.5. Conclusions and recommendations
Chapter 11. Assessment of heavy metal soil pollution in the agricultural land of North Western Bangladesh
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Objectives
11.3. Materials and methods
11.4. Result and discussion
11.5. Analysis of pollution level
11.6. Conclusion
Chapter 12. High volume fly ash utilization for reclamation of wastelands with special reference to mine spoil and ash back-haul areas for agriculture and forestry
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Materials and methods
12.3. Results and discussion
12.4. Recommendations for rehabilitation
12.5. Conclusions
Chapter 13. GIS-based assessment for agricultural susceptibility and sustainability to meteorological drought in West Bengal
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Study area
13.3. Materials and methods
13.4. Result and discussion
13.5. Conclusion
Chapter 14. Land suitability assessment for effective agricultural practices in Paschim Medinipur and Jhargram districts, West Bengal, India
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Materials and methods
14.3. Result and discussion
14.4. Conclusion
Chapter 15. Land reclamation, management, and planning in coastal region: a geoinformatics approach
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Costal land identification and reclamation
15.3. Coastal topography analysis and reclamation
15.4. Coastal erosion control and reclamation
15.5. Coastal habitat mapping and reclamation
15.6. Site management planning
15.7. Reclamation guidelines and coast management
Chapter 16. Evaluation of long-term shoreline changes between Rasulpur and Subarnarekha estuary, east coast of India using remote sensing and GIS techniques
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Study area
16.3. Materials and methods
16.4. Result and discussion
16.5. Conclusion
Chapter 17. Mangrove sensitivities to climate change and its impacts in the Sundarbans: a case study in the Patibania Island of south western Sundarbans, India
17.1. Introduction
17.2. Study area
17.3. Materials and methods
17.4. Identification of mangrove characteristics
17.5. Changes in climate and soil characters
17.6. Influence of climate over mangrove
17.7. Relationship between salinity and mangroves within island
17.8. Conclusions
Chapter 18. An empirical study on mangrove restoration in Indian Sundarbans—a community-based environmental approach
18.1. Introduction
18.2. Study area
18.3. Objectives of study
18.4. Materials and methods
18.5. Result and discussion
18.6. Conclusion
Chapter 19. Forest land degradation and restoration: lessons from historical processes and contemporary advances
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Forest degradation
19.3. Forest restoration
19.4. A need to relook forest degradation and restoration process and advances
19.5. Historical processes in forest degradation and restoration
19.6. Contemporary advances in forest degradation and restoration
19.7. Conclusion
Chapter 20. Forest land degradation and reclamation process in Indian Sundarbans: a case study
20.1. Introduction
20.2. Geographical perspective of Sundarbans
20.3. Historical perspective of land reclamation in Sundarbans
20.4. Land degradation
20.5. The case study
20.6. Objectives of the case study
20.7. Materials and methods
20.8. Results and discussion
20.9. Conclusion
Chapter 21. Monitoring and changing pattern of shifting cultivation and reclamation in hilly regions using Geospatial Technology
21.1. Introduction
21.2. Geospatial technology for shifting cultivation
21.3. Database on shifting cultivation
21.4. Objectives
21.5. Study area
21.6. Materials and Methods
21.7. Results and discussions
21.8. Conclusion
Chapter 22. Afforestation, revegetation, and regeneration: a case study on Purulia district, West Bengal (India)
22.1. Introduction
22.2. Materials and methods
22.3. Result and discussions
22.4. Conclusion
Chapter 23. Land restoration strategies to mitigate the problems of shrinkage of wetlands in West Bengal
23.1. Introduction
23.2. Materials and methods
23.3. Result and discussion
23.4. Conclusions
Chapter 24. Conflict between land reclamation and natural channels: case of Greater Mohali region
24.1. Introduction
24.2. Study area: Greater Mohali region (GMR)
24.3. Materials and methods
24.4. Time-series analysis
24.5. Results and discussion
24.6. Conclusion
Chapter 25. Land reclamation and reuse of waste water on the backdrop of urban sprawl of Kolkata metropolitan: a case study of East Kolkata, Wetland, India
25.1. Introduction
25.2. Land reclamation
25.3. Importance of study area—EKW
25.4. Land use pattern due to urban planning
25.5. Materials and methods
25.6. Results and discussions
25.7. Discussion
25.8. Conclusion
Chapter 26. Wetland formation and reclamation in the flood prone areas: a case study in Bihar, India
26.1. Introduction
26.2. Materials and methods
26.3. Emergence of Chaur and discussion
26.4. The emergence of Maun and discussion
26.5. Taal area and discussion
26.6. Reported results and scattered studies
26.7. Conclusion
Chapter 27. Land use land cover dynamics with the outgrowth of Burdwan town (India): problems with sustainable solutions
27.1. Introduction
27.2. Study area
27.3. Materials and methods
27.4. Results and discussion
27.5. Related problems and sustainable solutions
27.6. Conclusion
Chapter 28. Quantification of decadal deforestation and afforestation scenario in Bankura District of West Bengal using geospatial techniques
28.1. Introduction
28.2. Materials and methods
28.3. Results and discussions
28.4. Conclusion
Chapter 29. Rainwater harvesting potential in Nagaland, India
29.1. Introduction
29.2. Study area
29.3. Materials and methods
29.4. Result and discussion
29.5. Conclusions and suggestions
Chapter 30. Appraisal of ecosystem services and forest resource conservation in a tropical dry deciduous forest of Aravallis, India
30.1. Introduction
30.2. Materials and methods
30.3. Results and discussion
30.4. Conclusion
Chapter 31. Challenges of land reclamation for Teesta River victims: sustainable management policy for reclaimed land
31.1. Introduction
31.2. Materials and methods
31.3. Challenges of land reclamation
31.4. Recommendations/toward a sustainable management policy
31.5. Conclusion
Chapter 32. Geospatial technology in salt-affected land assessment and reclamation
32.1. Introduction
32.2. Geospatial technology
32.3. Processes in development of salt-affected soils
32.4. Remote sensing of salt affected soils
32.5. Reclamation of salt-affected soils
32.6. Case studies
32.7. Conclusions
Chapter 33. Locally informed “remediation” interventions: lessons of community (co)engagement from semi-arid Bundelkhand, India
33.1. Introduction
33.2. Beyond land: “remediation” interventions (co)engaging community
33.3. Bundelkhand: the project rationale and objectives
33.4. Methodology
33.5. Farm-based “soft” remediation interventions: case studies and examples
33.6. Conclusion
Disclaimer
Index

Gouri Sankar Bhunia

Dr. Gouri Sankar Bhunia earned his Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of Calcutta in India. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on applying geospatial technologies to prevent infectious disease in the environment. Environmental modeling, risk assessment, natural resource mapping and modeling, data mining, and information retrieval utilizing geospatial technologies are among his research interests. Dr. Bhunia serves on the editorial boards of three international journals in health GIS and geosciences as an associate editor. Dr. Bhunia has published more than 60 articles in Scopus-indexed publications.

Affiliations and expertise

Remote Sensing and GIS consultant, TPF Gentisa Euroestudio SL, India

Uday Chatterjee

Dr. Uday Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor at Bhatter College in Dantan, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India, and an Applied Geographer with a Post-Graduate in Applied Geography from Utkal University and a Doctorate in Applied Geography from Ravenshaw University in Cuttack, Odisha. He has contributed to a number of research papers that have been published in reputable national and international publications, as well as edited book volumes. He has also organized (as the convener) a Faculty Development Program on "Modern ways of teaching and advanced research methods," which was funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). Urban Planning, Social and Human Geography, Applied Geomorphology, Hazards & Disasters, Environmental Issues, Land Use and Rural Development are some of his research interests. The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) of the Government of West Bengal, India, financed his research. He has worked as a reviewer for a number of international publications. Dr. Uday Chatterjee is currently the lead editor of the Springer Special Issue (S.I) on Urbanism, Smart Cities, and Modelling.

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Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Bhatter College (Affiliated to Vidyasagar University), Dantan, India

Anil Kashyap

Anil Kashyap is Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of the West of England. Dr. Kashyap brings a wealth of national and international experience with 22 years in academia, research, and the public sector. Prior to this was Deputy Head of School at Coventry University and Professor and Director of School of Real Estate at RICS School of Built Environment. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, master’s degree in urban planning and a PhD from University of Ulster, United Kingdom. Dr. Kashyap is Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), London, Member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), London and Fellow of the Institute of Town Planners (ITPI), India. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) United Kingdom and a Council Member of the International Federation of Housing and Planning (IFHP) representing India. He has recently been appointed to a prestigious panel of International Land Measurement Standard Setting Committee (ILMS – SSC) led by RICS, London. Dr Kashyap has strong research interest spanning from energy efficiency in built form, healthy and smart cities, urban regeneration and infrastructure development and financing.

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Head, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England, UK

Pravat Kumar Shit

Dr. Pravat Kumar Shit is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Vidyasagar University, India and also works in the Postgraduate Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College, India. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Geomorphology from Vidyasagar University in 2013, M.Sc. in Geography and Environment Management from Vidyasagar University in 2005 and PG Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS from Sambalpur University in 2015. His main fields of research are soil erosion spatial modelling, water resource and natural resource mapping, and geospatial modelling, and has published over 50 international and national research articles in various renowned journals. He has published three books and is an associate editor or on the editorial board of three international journals in geography and environmental science.

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Assistant Professor, Postgraduate Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), Gope Palace, Midnapore, West Bengal, India

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