Land use Change and Agricultural Land Transformation: A case study of Manikganj Pourashova,Bangladesh

Abstract

To find out the urban sprawl of Dhaka city and land use change with socio-economic factor in Manikganj pourashova and Assessment of flood risk based on the geomorphological land classification map under the land use change. For analyzing land-use pattern and geomorphic analysis, Arc GIS 10 software has been used. It can be seen that developing activities as well as increasing population have made a large difference in agricultural land use change, which are decreasing rapidly at the present time in the study area compared with the past seven years or more.