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Survey Paper | Geography | India | Volume 4 Issue 5, May 2015
An Analysis on Human Settlement of Haldia Municipal Area in West Bengal
Anirban Baitalik [2] | Sridam Samanta
Abstract: A settlement is a community in which people live. A settlement can range in size from a small number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. In sum, settlement geography describes and explains the settlements' location, substance, form and structure, as well as the functions and processes that produced them over time. As an applied science, it projects future settlement development and contributes to the sustainable development of human-environmental systems. Settlement is the major component of human life. Human settlement plays an important role for improving social well-being of the society. Present study shows type, pattern and morphology of the human settlement of the study area.
Keywords: Settlement, Dwelling, Human-environmental system, Social well-being, Morphology
Edition: Volume 4 Issue 5, May 2015,
Pages: 1257 - 1259
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