Abstract:
Bangladesh has vast coastal and marine resources along its south edge. The coastal area of the country is known as one of the highly productive areas of the world. However, this coastal zone is often perceived as a zone of multiple vulnerabilities, environmental destruction and pollution. Manmade Hazards like ship breaking yard is now made it more vulnerable. Ship breaking area in Sitakunda coast was monitored for last two decades using temporal satellite imagery and statistical data. The results revealed that ship breaking activity is increasing day by day due to lack of environmental regulations. This causes huge physicochemical and biological degradation of coastal environment. In two decades, the land destruction becomes double. Aerial information from temporal Landsat imagery showed that, negatively impacted coastal area increased by 308.7% from 367 ha (1989) to 1133 ha (2010) like a growing cancerous tumor in the Sitakunda coast.
Keywords:
Beach breaking; ship recycling; environment monitoring; coastal pollution; remote sensing.
Authors:
Hasan Muhammad Abdullah, River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, Gifu 501 1193, Japan
M. Golam Mahboob, GIS&RS Lab, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Gazipur 1701, Bangladesh,
Ahammad Al Biruni, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Japan,
6 comments:
Good job. research in Ship breaking related environment problem is limited. It is informative and good to read.
Nice study!
Well done!!!
Good work, nice reading
An extended version of the above article was published on 25 August 2012 in the reputed International Journal of Springer: "Environmental Monitoring and Assessment"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-012-2833-4
Extended version of the above article was published online in August/2012 on famous international journal (of Springer Group): "Environmental Monitoring and Assessment"
Hyperlink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-012-2833-4
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