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Documente Cultură
Presented by:
Yashwardhan Agrawal
IIIrd year DA
B. Arch, SCOA
Outline
Land degradation
Wetland
Types of Wetlands
Wetland degradation
Threats to Wetlands
Conservation measures
Architect’s Role & Responsibilities
Land Degradation
Land degradation is a process in which the value of the biophysical
environment is affected by a combination of human-induced processes acting
upon the land.
Hunting, Industrial
Land
Fishing effluents
Human Agricultural
Water
settlement run off
Vegetation
removal
Implications
Demarcation of boundary
Construction of embankment
Control of industrial activity
Control of commercial exploitation of
aquatic resources
Complete stoppage of garbage dumping
Awareness campaign
Implementing sustainable wetland
management strategies
Ramsar Convention, 1971
An architect’s role
Planning and designing of reserves/sanctuary/parks
Actively restore and preserve the biome in various wetland