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Forest Landscape Dynamic and People’s Livelihood Dependency on Forest: A Study on Bankura District, West Bengal

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Forest is the key element of the environment and ecosystem. The forests of Bankura district are of deciduous type and the dominant species here is Sal (Shorea robusta). Due to the development processes and increasing demand of agricultural land, the forests have been destroyed. In this study, we have analysed the spatio-temporal change of land use land cover from the year 1990 to 2020 with 10 years of interval aided by Landsat 4-5TM and Landsat 8OLI images. The study also looked into the degree of fragmentation through various matrices such as Percentage of Landscape (PLAND), Patch Number (NP), Patch Density (PD), Total Edge (TE), Edge Density (ED), Landscape Shape Index (LSI), Patch Cohesion Index (COHESION), Perimeter-Area Fractal Dimension (PAFRAC), and Aggregation Index (AI) using Fragstat 4.2 software. It was evident that agricultural land and built-up area had increased at the expense of forest. Moreover, the matrices highlight the forest areas have become more degraded and fragmented during the study period. Considerable portions of the population in the district earn their livelihood from various forest products and dwell in and around the forest areas. A household survey was conducted in different blocks of the district to understand the people’s extent of dependency on the forest and their perception on the forest fragmentation. The levels of awareness of forest degradation were though evident but keen interests in participation towards mitigating the problem were not observed among the respondents.

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  1. Department of Geography, Bankura Zilla Saradamani Mahila Mahavidyapith, Bankura University, Purandarpur, West Bengal, India

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  1. Department of Geography, Bhatter College, Dantan (Affiliated to Vidyasagar University), Paschim Medinipore, West Bengal, India

    Uday Chatterjee

  2. Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, (COOU), Anambra State, Nigeria

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  3. Department of Space, Government of India, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

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Roy, A.D., Mandal, S. (2022). Forest Landscape Dynamic and People’s Livelihood Dependency on Forest: A Study on Bankura District, West Bengal. In: Chatterjee, U., Akanwa, A.O., Kumar, S., Singh, S.K., Dutta Roy, A. (eds) Ecological Footprints of Climate Change . Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15501-7_15

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