期刊名称：Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space
电子版ISSN：2180-2491
出版年度：2014
卷号：10
期号：3
页码：1-17
出版社：Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
摘要：Bangladesh is a small country of 147,570 km 2 with a population o f around 160 million. Using each parcel of land prudently is crucial for proper develop ment. Information on existing land use is thus of utmost importance for better use of land. Present researches on land use are confined mainly to change detection or pattern analysis of mainly urban areas . As rural areas comprise more settlement areas than urban, this stud y attempts to depict the existing plot-to-plot use of land in rural areas of coastal Bangladesh. Two union parishad were selected randomly and base map of those areas were collected. For collection of detailed land use data, plot to plot survey was co nducted by using fractional code method. Results show that agriculture is dominant in one union, and residential area is dominant in another area and like other parts of the country three seasonal variation o f crop production occur here. Overall area proportions of the studied areas are also provided. The overall exercise provides a detailed and comprehensive scenario of the area which sho uld help policy makers to plan accordingly, and fills a literature gap on Bangladesh land use
