LANDSCAPE-ECOLOGICAL PLAN AS A TOOL TO SOLVE THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF URBANIZATION IN KATHMANDU CITY

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LANDSCAPE-ECOLOGICAL PLAN AS A TOOL TO SOLVE THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF URBANIZATION IN KATHMANDU CITY

Journal Title: FOLIA GEOGRAPHICA - Year 2009, Vol 48, Issue 1

Abstract

This research project is an outcome of the two years‘ effort between 1985-1987 un- der the sponsorship of North-South-Dialogue-Scholarship Programme of the Austrian Government. After arrival of Mr. M. P. Gautam, ecologist and doctoral candidate from Nepal in Vienna he was assigned to work at the Institute for Landscape Planning and Garden Architecture, Technical University Vienna. At the initial stage, several discussions about the burning problems of Kathmandu were held. Many alternative methodologies needed for this study were at hand. However, we decided to follow a more applied meth - odology, LANDEP, which was recently developed in Slovakia with a view that this ap- plied methodology could contribute a lot to solve the problems faced by urbanization Kathmandu today. This research projects is fully presented only in this monograph. So far, only some adapted selected parts have been published at international fora (Žigrai 1991, Žigrai, Gautam 1990, 1992 a, b, 1994). Lack of some analytical source materials necessary for the preparation of the landscape-ecological plan called for expansion of the LANDEP methodology adding to it air pollution and noise assessments by land use data interpretation. Delimitation of territories with urban landscape use conflicts of were also included. Parts of the project text is a number of colour maps. Because of technical rea- sons, only fragments of some maps in black and white versions are presented.

Authors and Affiliations

Florin ŽIGRAI, Madhab P. GAUTAM

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