Publication Date: 2024/01/08
Abstract: Urban expansion has transformed precious land, particularly water bodies, creating an adverse effect on the entire urban environment. In developing countries, this scenario is quite astonishing, and the rate of urbanisation is quite high. Currently, as a developing country, Bangladesh is experiencing rapid and unplanned urban expansion, resulting in serious environmental degradation. Apart from these, the unplanned and rapid urban expansion has influenced the chaotic growth of urban infrastructure and the filing of wetlands, cutting hills, deforestation, and destruction of precious agricultural land. This study tries to identify the influence of urban expansion on the present condition of water bodies in Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC). To do this, water bodies in Rajshahi city are categorised into four types: good, moderate, poor, and filled up. The analysis reveals that 32.37% of the water bodies are filled up. Furthermore, data regarding the present utilisation of land with the specific objective of reclaiming water bodies has been collected. The current study focused exclusively on changes in water bodies without including any analysis of other types of land cover. There is tremendous opportunity for undertaking research on diverse forms of land cover change and obtaining good outcomes for total land transformation due to urban expansion in the Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) area.
Keywords: Urban Expansion, Urbanisation, Water Bodies, Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), Bangladesh.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10469638
PDF: https://ijirst.demo4.arinfotech.co/assets/upload/files/IJISRT23DEC1921.pdf
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