Land Use

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Deforestation and timber extraction in Borneo and the Malay Peninsula
(Elsevier, 1990) Harold Brookfield; Yvonne Byron
Since the 1960s the Dipterocarp forests of Southeast Asia have become the principal source of tropical hardwood timber entering world trade. The transformation of the rain forest environment in the Malay Peninsula and Borneo has generated increasing international and local concern. After reviewing the general issues, the authors make use of export data for Peninsular Malaysia and each political unit of the island of Borneo to provide a consistent data source around which events can be described and analysed.
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Integrated land use assessment (ILA) for planning and monitoring urban development
(Environmental Management Society Malaysia, 2004) Ahris Yaakup; Siti Zalina Abu Bakar; Susilawati Sulaiman
The dynamic nature of planning and monitoring of development in Klang Valley region requires for a 'tool' for continuous evaluation and analysis of the current environment as well as the capacity for future development. As such, Integrated Land use Assessment (ILA) is introduced as a new concept within the “Application of Geographic Information System (GIS) for Klang Valley Region” (AGISwlk). The introduction of ILA as an integrated land use planning approach that exploits the GIS analysis capabilities, supported by the use of planning support systems is seen as a good mechanism for monitoring urban development especially in environmentally-sensitive areas (ESAs). ILA is also aimed at reducing causes of degradation to environmental quality due to rapid development and expansion of city limits which have either directly or indirectly affected environmental quality in Klang Valley.
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Kemudahterancaman (vulnerability) penduduk terhadap perubahan guna tanah di Selangor
(Environmental Management Society Malaysia, 2004) Shaharudin Idrus; Lim Choun Sian; Abdul Samad Hadi
The changes in land use and land cover indicate the development changes that occur at a certain place. Selangor has an area of 796,084 hectares and consists of nine districts. The state government of Selangor plans to achieve the most developed state status by the year 2005. Consequently, land use patterns have changed tremendously, especially within the past five years. The change in land use, especially from forest to non-forest, results in environmental degradation that will eventually threaten human life in that particular area. Whether we realize it or not, the change in land use may increase people's vulnerability in a society that tries to achieve development in line with the framework of sustainable development. This article will examine the changes in land use and land cover which has occurred within the last four decades (1966-2001) using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and its relationship with vulnerability to human life in the surrounding area.
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Prediction of soil and nutrient losses in a highland catchment
(Springer, 2005) Ghulam M. Hashim; W. Y. Wan Abdullah
A simulation study using GLEAMS (Groundwater Loading Effects of Agricultural Management Systems) was conducted at a catchment presently under tea farming in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. Soil, water and nutrient transport associated with several alternative land uses was studied. In addition, the effect of a disruptive form of land clearing on soil, water and nutrient losses was also investigated. Modelling with GLEAMS required information from field measurements and observations, laboratory analyses, guide tables, industry records, maps and reports published by soil survey and meteorological departments.
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Sustainability of current agricultural practices in the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
(Springer, 2005) B. Y. Aminuddin; M. H. Ghulam; W. Y. Wan Abdullah; M. Zulkefli; R. B. Salama
A study on the sustainability of these agro-ecosystems was conducted. Results indicated that soil loss was in the range of 24-42 ton/ha/yr under vegetables and 1.3 ton under rain-shelter. Sediment load in the vegetable sub-catchment reached 3.5 g/L, 50 times higher than that associated with flowers under rain-shelter and tea. The sediments contained high nutrient loads of up to 470 kg N/ha/yr. The N, P and K lost in runoff from cabbage farms was 154 kg/season/ha, whereas in chrysanthemum farms it was 5 kg. In cabbage farms, the N, P, and K lost through leaching was 193 kg/season/ha. The NO3-N concentration in the runoff from the cabbage farms reached 25 ppm but less than 10 ppm in runoff from rain-shelters. Inorganic pollution in the rivers was within the acceptable limit of 10 ppm.
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Sustainable use of tropical forests by reduced-impact logging in Deramakot Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia
(Springer, 2007) Peter Lagan; Sam Mannan; Hisashi Matsubayashi
In pursuance of economic growth and development, logging has exhausted the natural timber resource in the tropical rainforest of Sabah, Malaysia. Realizing the forest depletion, the Sabah Forestry Department, with technical support from the German Agency for Technical Cooperation, begun developing a management system with the intent of managing all commercial forest reserves in a way that mimics natural processes for sustainable production of low volume, high quality, and high priced timber products in 1989. As dictated by a forest management plan based on forest zoning, about 51,000 ha of the entire area is set aside for log production and 4,000 ha for conservation in Deramakot Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia.
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From Forest Landscape to Agricultural Landscape in the Developing Tropical Country of Malaysia: Pattern, Process, and Their Significance on Policy
(Springer, 2008) Saiful Arif Abdullah; Adnan A. Hezri
This paper examines: (i) the links between development policies and changes in land use/land cover and landscape pattern and (ii) the significance and implications of these links for future development policies. The objective is to generate insights on the changing process of land use/land cover and landscape pattern as a functional response to development policies and their consequences for environmental conditions.
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Perubahan gunatanah dan tahap kualiti air sungai di bandaraya Ipoh, Perak
(Environmental Management Society Malaysia, 2009) Nasir Nayan; Mohmadisa Hashim; Mohd Hairy Ibrahim; Mohamad Suhaily Yusri Che Ngah
Penulisan ini adalah berdasarkan kepada penyelidikan yang telah dijalankan bagi menyiasat perubahan gunatanah di Bandaraya Ipoh berdasarkan faktor ruang dan masa melalui penggunaan sistem maklumat geografi dan statistik lain. Sumber data sekunder yang digunakan adalah peta gunatanah Ipoh yang diperolehi daripada Jabatan Pertanian Semenanjung Malaysia untuk tahun1997, 2000, 2002 dan 2004. Pada masa yang sama data sekunder lain yang diperolehi daripada Jabatan Alam Sekitar melalui Syarikat Alam SekitarMalaysia Sdn Bhd (ASMA) bagi tahun 2006.
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The effects of improved land use on the meteorological modeling in Klang Valley region Malaysia
(Thai Society of Higher Eduation Institutes on Environment, 2010) Loi Kok Chng; Ahmad Makmom Abdullah; Wan Nor Azmin Sulaiman; Mohammad Firuz Ramli
It has been widely known that changes of the land surface from vegetation area to urban area can substantially affect the surrounding meteorological condition. Meteorological model was used to assess meteorological condition for air quality modeling and forecasting. Inputs used in this study for the meteorological and air quality model were land use and land cover of the terrain. This study tends to examine the sensitivity of land use and land cover on the predicted meteorological conditions. A meteorological simulation using fifth generation mesoscale model (MM5) by Penn State/NCAR was used to compare the effects of land use from two different years on meteorological condition.
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Assessing land use land cover changes in Langkawi island: towards sustainable urban living
(Environmental Management Society Malaysia, 2010) Narimah Samat
Simulating future urban growth might be useful in predicting the future urban fabric and its impact on the society, space and environment. This approach, however, needs to be undertaken with care such that it requires fundamental understanding of past and present situation. At present, urban area in developing nation is experiencing rapid urbanization and undergoing physical transformation, since majority of its population lives in urban area. It is therefore, essential that urban planners and managers understand the past and present land use land cover changes in order to predict its impacts on the society, economy and environment of the cities. This study aims to explore and assess land use land cover changes in Langkawi Island, Malaysia which has experienced significant increase of population during the last decade mainly due to the growth in tourism sector.
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Kajian Kualitatif Perubahan Guna Tanah Kawasan Bandar Pekanbaru dengan Menggunakan Sistem Maklumat Geografi (Gis)
(Penerbit UKM, 2010) Yusri; Othman A. Karim; Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud; Mohd Ekhwan Toriman
Penggunaan tanah boleh mengakibatkan perubahan fungsi dari masa ke masa, sesuai dengan tujuan pembangunan. Kawasan Bandar Pekanbaru terdiri daripada 12 sub-kawasan persekutuan dengan jumlah keluasan kira-kira 632.26 km2. Tujuan kajian adalah untuk menganalisis perubahan guna tanah daripada aspek ruang dan masa. Data guna tanah yang diambil kira dalam analisis ini adalah peta guna tanah 1992 dan 2004.
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Landsat data to evaluate urban expansion and determine land use/land cover changes in Penang Island, Malaysia
(Springer, 2010) Kok Chooi Tan; Hwee San Lim; Mohd Zubir MatJafri; Khiruddin Abdullah
Land surface temperature (LST) plays an important role in local, regional and global climate studies. LST controls the distribution of the budget for radiation heat between the atmosphere and the earth's surface. Therefore, it is important to evaluate abrupt changes in land use/land cover (LULC). Penang Island, Malaysia has been experiencing a rapid and drastic change in urban expansion over the past two decades due to growth in industrial and residential areas.
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Hydrological trend analysis due to land use changes at Langat river basin
(Thai Society of Higher Eduation Institutes on Environment, 2010) Hafizan Juahir; Sharifuddin M. Zain; Ahmad Zaharin Aris; Mohd Kamil Yusof; Mohd Armi Abu Samah; Mazlin Bin Mokhtar
This present study was carried out to detect the spatial and temporal change (1974-2000) in hydrological trend and its relationship to land use changes in the Langat River Basin. To obtain a clear picture of the hydrological parameters during the study period, rainfall data were analyzed. With the help of GIS and non-parametric Mann-Kendall (MK) statistical test the significance of trend in hydrological and land use time series was measured.
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Towards the conservation of Sungai Santi catchment: monitoring of land use and vegetation density of mangrove areas
(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2011) Akmal. S.; Syarina M. S.; S.A. Sharifah Mastura; Mazlan A. Ghaffar
This paper presents analyses of the land use and land cover change of the Sungai Santi catchment area. The purposes of this study were to delineate mangrove and other land use and land cover and to detect and develop land use masp in catchment aresa over the past 17 years.
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Conservation of Sarawak peat swamp in an urban landscape by fuzzy inference system
(Springer, 2011) Darrien Yau Seng Mah
Freshwater habitats are one of the planet’s most important, yet most manipulated, environments. This is what happens in Sarawak that the environment has been radically changed due to urban developments. This paper is promoting the idea that we do not need a complicated but a simple tool like fuzzy inference system to strike a balance between the existence of peat swamp and the humans who live nearer and nearer to it.
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Soil erosion assessment and its correlation with landslide events using remote sensing data and GIS: a case study at Penang Island, Malaysia
(Springer, 2012) Biswajeet Pradhan; Amruta Chaudhari; J. Adinarayana; Manfred F. Buchroithner
In this paper, an attempt has been made to assess, prognosis and observe dynamism of soil erosion by universal soil loss equation (USLE) method at Penang Island, Malaysia. Multi-source (map-, space- and ground-based) datasets were used to obtain both static and dynamic factors of USLE, and an integrated analysis was carried out in raster format of GIS. A landslide location map was generated on the basis of image elements interpretation from aerial photos, satellite data and field observations and was used to validate soil erosion intensity in the study area.
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Application of geographic information system technique and analytical hierarchy process model for land-use suitability analysis on coastal area
(Springer, 2013) Milad Bagheri; Wan Nor Azmin Sulaiman; Negin Vaghefi
The combination of GIS and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is a powerful approach used to assess land suitability. To address this issue, the Analytical Hierarchy Process method is used in combination with the GIS tool. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how GIS tools and AHP model can be used for integrated coastal resource planning and management. Based on the information from final map/suitability map, we can define the best area.
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Comparison of Two Classification Methods (MLC and SVM) to Extract Land Use and Land Cover in Johor Malaysia
(IOP Publishing, 2014) B Rokni Deilmai; B Bin Ahmad; H Zabihi
In this study, we have analyzed multispectral data using two different classifiers including Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). To pursue this aim, Landsat Thematic Mapper data and identical field-based training sample datasets in Johor Malaysia used for each classification method, which results indicate in five land cover classes forest, oil palm, urban area, water, rubber.
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Impacts of logging road networks on dung beetles and small mammals in a Malaysian production forest: Implications for biodiversity safeguards
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2014) Toshihiro Yamada; Masahiro Niino; Satoru Yoshida; Tetsuro Hosaka; Toshinori Okuda
We conducted research on the impact of logging on biodiversity of dung beetles and small mammals in a production forest in Temengor Forest Reserve, Perak, Malaysia. This was done to develop such quantitative criteria for Malaysian production forests while paying special attention to the effects of road networks, such as skid trails, logging roads, and log yards, on biodiversity.
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Analysis of meander evolution studies on effect from land use and climate change at the upstream reach of the Pahang River, Malaysia
(Springer, 2015) Mohd Khairul Amri Kamarudin; Mohd Ekhwan Toriman; Mohd Hafiz Rosli; Hafizan Juahir; Nor Azlina Abdul Aziz; Azman Azid; Syahrir Farihan Mohamed Zainuddin; Wan Nor Azmin Sulaiman
Hydrogeomorphologically, the study of river meandering provides information on the tendency of rivers to reach and form a state of equilibrium. The process of meander changes is important in order to identify the environment-related causes that occur naturally or vice versa. Sedimentation, erosion, flood, and water quality problems usually are being specifically studied, but in a broad view, changes in the platform of the river affect all the problems that occur. This article discusses the effects of the meanders evolution changes from land use and climate change in the upstream of Sungai Pahang in over 61 years from 1932 to 1993.