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Part II Ekistics and Ecology of Social Environment
7 Dwelling in Decay: Analysing the Spatio- Psychological
Paradigm of Dilapidated Dwellings in Kolkata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Teesta Dey
8 Spatio-Temporal Transformation of Urban Built-Up
Areas for Sustainable Environmental Management
in Selected Cities of West Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Rajat Kumar Paul and Pradip Patra
9 Population Pressure and Urban Sprawl
in Kolkata Metropolitan Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Rukhsana and Md Hasnine
10 Socio-ecological Niche of Tribes of Purulia District,
West Bengal, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Somnath Mukherjee and Uma Sankar Malik
11 Gajan: A Cultural Heritage of the Marginalized
People in Kulpi CD Block, West Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Moumita Ghosh and Lakshminarayan Satpati
Part III Hazards and Environmental Management for Sustainable
Development
12 Environmental Vulnerability and Displacement
Due to Land Erosion: Selected Case Studies
in West Bengal, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Anwesha Haldar, Samiparna Das, Riyanka Chatterjee, and
Lakshminarayan Satpati
13 Flood Frequency Analysis and Its Management
in Selected Part of Bardhaman District, West Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Subodh Chandra Pal, Biswajit Das, Sadhan Malik, Manisa Shit,
and Rabin Chakrabortty
14 Spatiotemporal Extent of Agricultural Drought
Over Western Part of West Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Mou Dey, Dipanwita Dutta, and Abira Dutta Roy
15 Drought-Induced Human Mobility
in Purulia District of West Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Shrinwantu Raha and Shasanka Kumar Gayen
16 Traditional Water Management System
and Agricultural Sustainability in a Himalayan
Foothill Village of Assam, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Sourav Saha, N. Deka, and A. K. Bhagabati
Contents
Part II Ekistics and Ecology of Social Environment
7 Dwelling in Decay: Analysing the Spatio- Psychological
Paradigm of Dilapidated Dwellings in Kolkata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Teesta Dey
8 Spatio-Temporal Transformation of Urban Built-Up
Areas for Sustainable Environmental Management
in Selected Cities of West Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Rajat Kumar Paul and Pradip Patra
9 Population Pressure and Urban Sprawl
in Kolkata Metropolitan Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Rukhsana and Md Hasnine
10 Socio-ecological Niche of Tribes of Purulia District,
West Bengal, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Somnath Mukherjee and Uma Sankar Malik
11 Gajan: A Cultural Heritage of the Marginalized
People in Kulpi CD Block, West Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Moumita Ghosh and Lakshminarayan Satpati
Part III Hazards and Environmental Management for Sustainable
Development
12 Environmental Vulnerability and Displacement
Due to Land Erosion: Selected Case Studies
in West Bengal, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Anwesha Haldar, Samiparna Das, Riyanka Chatterjee, and
Lakshminarayan Satpati
13 Flood Frequency Analysis and Its Management
in Selected Part of Bardhaman District, West Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Subodh Chandra Pal, Biswajit Das, Sadhan Malik, Manisa Shit,
and Rabin Chakrabortty
14 Spatiotemporal Extent of Agricultural Drought
Over Western Part of West Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Mou Dey, Dipanwita Dutta, and Abira Dutta Roy
15 Drought-Induced Human Mobility
in Purulia District of West Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Shrinwantu Raha and Shasanka Kumar Gayen
16 Traditional Water Management System
and Agricultural Sustainability in a Himalayan
Foothill Village of Assam, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Sourav Saha, N. Deka, and A. K. Bhagabati
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