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• Population an land cover dinamics of Sundarbans impact zone is Bangladesh

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  Md. Sanaul Haque Mondal

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  Sundarbans is the largest mangrove forest of the world that lies in Bangladesh and India. This paper examined the correlation among population dynamics of Sundarbans impact zone (SIZ) from 1974 to 2011; impact of climate change on the forest; and changes in land cover of the forest from 1973 to 2010. Population size of SIZ was increased by 1.6 times between 1974 and 2011, whereas decreased by 2% during 2001 to 2011. During 1973 to 2010, water bodies, barren land and vegetated land reduced by 7.35%, 49.56% and 15.92% respectively; while grass land increased by 228.14% during the same period. But both population size and vegetated land declined during 2001 and 2011. This was due to the landfall of two severe cyclones in 2007 and 2009 through Sundarbans which resulted thousands of human casualties and out migration, and destruction of the forest. In addition, anthropogenic interventions like low flow from Ganges River and policy constraints also contributed to the demolition of Sundarbans. Thus, population growth, climate change and anthropogenic interventions are playing a decisive role to the depletion of forest resources from the Sundarbans mangrove forest.

• Urban dynamics and urban sprawl in hill stations of India: a case study of Shillong city

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  F Phibawanlang Kharpran

  Subrata Purkayastha

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  364

  The hill stations of India are remnants of colonial past built by the British where the scenic landscape and climate similar to Britain attracted the British to set up cantonments and sanatoriums for the British troops and their families. Shillong City whose origin dates back to the 19^th century, was the British capital of Assam Province, the administrative seat of undivided Assam after India’s Independence and at present the capital of Meghalaya. The city’s growth resulted from the continuous influx of population to fulfil the changing socio-economic and political dynamics of the city.  This hill station was built by the British with a vision to house a population of less than one lakh. It was then a cluster of a few scattered hamlets, which at present has grown tremendously with 12 contiguous urban units forming the Shillong Urban Agglomeration (SUA). With the help of RS -GIS using Shannon entropy technique as a landscape metric, the urban sprawl of Shillong has been measured from the year 1991 to 2001.The rapid growth has led to an urban sprawl which poses various challenges to the city’s environment.