Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Singapore journal of tropical geography
26 (2005), S. 0
ISSN:
1467-9493
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Geography
Notes:
This paper focuses on the large-scale land use and land cover changes that have taken place in Sarawak state, East Malaysia over the three decades of 1972-2002. Results are presented from a detailed land use and cover change (LUCC) study in the Niah River catchment using satellite imagery, questionnaire surveys and interviews. Successive waves of land cover changes have taken place. Large forest areas have been logged and gradually replaced by oil palm plantations, which now occupy more than 40 per cent of the total land area in the catchment. Concurrently, small-scale farming systems have also changed. Formerly dominant Iban shifting cultivation practices are increasingly being replaced by cash crop production on permanent fields and impacted by off-farm activities involving many ethnic groups. It is argued that land cover changes are continuous and complex processes involving a large number of variables which can be analysed for different time periods at various scales.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0129-7619.2005.00212.x
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