Urban wetlands and the built environment eco tourism as a strategy for sustainable co existence and management of deepor beel a ramsar wetland in india

Abstract

Today amidst the rapidly expanding urbanized world around 54 of the world 8482 s population lives in cities The concept of 732 Green Design 8482 has now become a new trend for the development of sustainable cities With the intervention of green infrastructure to save the cities the urban planners and policy makers are addressing it in a much bigger way Urban aquatic environments are a part of the green infrastructures that possess very high ecological value and play an important role in a healt