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Malabika Biswas, Nihar Ranjan Samal, Pankaj KumarRoy, Asis Mazumdar. 2010: Man-wetland dependency and socio-economic evaluation of wetland functions of rural India through participatory approach. Water Science and Engineering, 3(4): 467-479. doi: 10.3882/j.issn.1674-2370.2010.04.009
Citation: Malabika Biswas, Nihar Ranjan Samal, Pankaj KumarRoy, Asis Mazumdar. 2010: Man-wetland dependency and socio-economic evaluation of wetland functions of rural India through participatory approach. Water Science and Engineering, 3(4): 467-479. doi: 10.3882/j.issn.1674-2370.2010.04.009
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Man-wetland dependency and socio-economic evaluation of wetland functions of rural India through participatory approach

doi: 10.3882/j.issn.1674-2370.2010.04.009
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    Jadavpur University

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    National Institute of Technology Durgapur

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  • Corresponding author: Malabika Biswas
  • Received Date: 2010-07-15
  • Rev Recd Date: 2010-12-28
    Abstract
  • Wetlands are almost the exclusive source of natural resources upon which rural economic depend. In fact wetlands are generally highly productive eco-systems, providing many important benefits. These benefits are mainly flood control and ground water recharging and pollution reduction and act as filtering aquatic system. Wetland, however, contains numerous goods and services that have an economic value not only to the local populations, but also to people living outside the periphery of the wetland. Stakeholders’ participation is very essential to protect and preserve wetland because it plays a very important role economically as well as ecologically in the wetland system. The objective of the present paper is to analyze whether there is any dependency of the gender, educational status, mouzas (Mouzas are constituents of a block according to land reform of West Bengal Government in India) and wetland functions on annual income of the local community. Considering a flood-plain wetland in rural India, the focus is extended to recognize the pattern of wetland functions according to the nature of involvement of people through cluster analysis for the male and the female population. Using the statistical software, R-2.8.1, ANOVA table is constructed. Since the p-value is lower than 0.5 for each case, it can be remarked that there is a significance dependency of gender, educational status, mouzas, and wetland functions on annual income. However, S-plus-2000 is applied to get a complete scenario of pattern of the wetland functions, in terms of involvement of males and females, through the cluster analysis. The main conclusion is that, the significance effects of gender, educational status, mouzas, and wetland function on annual income have been found to be satisfactory while the pattern of occupation of the local community based on wetland functions is completely different for the male and the female population.

     

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