City Greens, Post Amphan: A Gender-Education-Profession Based Qualitative Survey
City Green -Gender-Education-Profession Based Qualitative Survey
Abstract
Kolkata has lost a substantial portion of its green cover due to the tropical super-cyclone Amphan which struck on 20th May 2020. The green casualty consisted mostly of old trees fully grown with a large canopy. Post Amphan it was found necessary to conduct a qualitative survey about the citizen’s stand (surveyed on the basis of gender, education and profession) on the havoc caused by Amphan, their reasons for the disastrous loss of greenery and their stand on future greening of their city.
The survey revealed women consider community green spaces as a definite contributing feature in urban greening. Community green spaces chosen by women is a positive feature, for encouraging such spaces would promote urban greening. This indicates women being sensitive to environmental challenges and crises. As the future greening programme most participants opted for the right species to be planted on the roadsides. This also conclusively proves that urban green planning is to be executed with utmost care, background knowledge and firsthand experience. The principles of ‘Right place, Right tree,’ ‘Safety First’, landscape architecture besides plant traits, characters and requirements must serve as strong guiding factors.
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