Abstract
Urban wet lands and water bodies can reduce overheating of the urban environment as well their general function of natural water purification. Nonetheless, urban wetlands are either diminishing or contracted from their original shape and size due to pressures from the housing sector and unplanned urbanisation. This chapter presents the findings of a study investigating into the possible relationships existing between water quality of urban and peri-urban water bodies and three selected parameters; shape complexity, micro-climatic temperature and land use around water bodies. For this reason three urban and one peri-urban water bodies in Dhaka have been studied with regard to those four parameters. The study was conducted by both parametric techniques and field campaigns.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
References
Ahmed KS (1995) Approaches to bioclimatic urban design for the tropics with special reference to Dhaka, Bangladesh. Phd thesis, Environment and Energy studies Programme, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London
Bunce NJ (1991) Environmental chemistry. Wuerz Publishing Limited, Winnipeg
Hwang SJ, Lee SW, Ju-Youn Sona JY, Park GA, Kimb SJ (2007) Moderating effects of the geometry of reservoirs on the relation between urban land use and water quality. Landsc Urban Plan 82(2007):175–183
Mandelbrot BB (1977) Fractals, form, chance and dimension. W. H. Freeman and Co., New York
Mandelbrot BB (1982) The fractal geometry of nature. W. H. Freeman and Co., New York
McGarigal K, Marks BJ (1995) Fragstats: spatial pattern analysis program for quantifying landscape structure. General technical report PNW-GTR- 351, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR
Internet Sources
McGarigal K (2015) Fragstats help. Computer software documentation produced by the authors at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. http://www.umass.edu/landeco/research/fragstats/documents/fragstats_documents.html. Accessed 12 Aug
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the work’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if such material is not included in the work’s Creative Commons license and the respective action is not permitted by statutory regulation, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to duplicate, adapt or reproduce the material.
Copyright information
© 2016 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Shahjahan, A.T.M., Ahmed, K.S. (2016). Study of Urban Water Bodies in View of Potential for Micro-climatic Cooling and Natural Purification of Waste Water. In: Maheshwari, B., Thoradeniya, B., Singh, V.P. (eds) Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 72. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28112-4_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28112-4_13
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-28110-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-28112-4
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)