Sustainable Management and Conservation Strategies of Wetlands with Special Reference to East Kolkata Wetland, India

Chakraborty, Susanta Kumar; Sanyal, Poulomi; Ray, Ratnadeep

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-09253-4_10

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“…This research did not look too deeply into the cooperative fisheries since examining the functioning of the cooperatives in detail was not part of the research focus. But fisheries owned by the State Fisheries Development Corporation and cooperative fisheries also support fishers and add to fish production; cooperatives can earn ₹10 million a year selling around 7 million tonnes of fish (Chakraborty & Das Gupta, 2019). The wetlands also function as a free sewage treatment plant for Kolkata, subsidising the city that would otherwise have to pay to treat its sewage.…”

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Pestilential or Productive? Tracking Two Centuries of Environmental Change and Current Perceptions About Ecosystem Services of the East Kolkata Wetlands

Mundoli,

Sanfui,

Nagendra

2023

Urbanisation

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Nature-based solutions (NbS) have gained popularity for their capacity to address sustainability chllenges in multiple ways. A historically grounded understanding of NbS framing in older urban areas, coupled with an examination of their resilience in contemporary times, can be very useful, especially in the global South, in the context of its urbanisation. The east Kolkata wetlands are a unique urban ecosystem for waste management and food provisioning in peri-urban Kolkata, one of India’s largest metropolitan cities. Using archival data, dating back to colonial times (mid-eighteenth century), secondary data on land use changes and in-depth interviews, we map the changes in perception and use of this wetland. By studying how food production and waste management supported by the wetland are in danger of being compromised, our research highlights why it is critical to acknowledge the multiple services of urban wetlands that are often undervalued by policymakers. We argue that if these services historically provided by the wetland are viewed as emerging NbS, they can contribute to enhancing ecosystem services, provide a better understanding of trade-offs between ecosystem services and disservices and help address sustainability challenges in today’s urban planning.

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