Transformed Wetlands and Urban Resilience: A Case Study from Jiadhal Wetlands, Dhemaji, Assam, India
摘要
Wetlands are one of the sources of an ecosystem. It can provide resilience to natural hazards like floods, drought, fire, storms, landslides, and erosion. India now has 80 Ramsar sites covering an area of 1.33 million hectares. In Assam, the only recognized Ramsar site is Deepor Beel located on the south-western edge of Guwahati city in the Kamrup district. There are a lot of big and small wetlands in the Dhemaji district of Assam, India. Most of the Jiadhal Wetlands have disappeared or are in the process of disappearing. This loss harms the key function performed by the wetlands. The methodology used for this chapter is Google Earth Engine, Erdas Imagine for Image Processing, ArcGIS, and QGIS for data visualization, and Python Programming for Data Handling and Analysis. This chapter will highlight the changing structure of the Jiadhal Wetland through the years. This chapter will emphasize the conservation challenges and the threat to the wetland due to the conversion of agricultural land or use for buildings, settlement, public infrastructures, proper drainage, flood, etc. Large sections of the wetlands are turned into agricultural land and aquaculture to increase fish productivity, and the area is urban resilience now.