McMorrow, Julia and Mustapa Abdul Talip (2001) Decline of forest area in Sabah, Malaysia : Relationship to state policies, land code and land capability. Global Environmental Change, 11 (3). pp. 217-230. ISSN 0959-3780
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Abstract
Forest decline in Sabah has resulted from state policies operating within the federal context. Approximately two-thirds of Sabah'snatural forest remains but estimates vary with the data source. Logging and shifting cultivation have degraded forest quality but commercial estate agriculture, especially oil palm, is now the major cause of forest loss, aided by Sabah's land tenure code and the ethnic equality and modernisation agendas of national and state agriculture policy. The pattern of forest decline is explained by partitioning of the land resource between gazetted Forest Reserves and land alienated to agriculture, guided by the 1976 land capability classification.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword: | Deforestation, Malaysia, Land tenure, Land use policy |
| Subjects: | S Agriculture > SD Forestry > SD1-669.5 Forestry > SD411-428 Conservation and protection Including forest influences, damage by elements, fires, forest reserves |
| Department: | SCHOOL > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | ADMIN ADMIN |
| Date Deposited: | 04 May 2011 12:05 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2017 13:20 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/2915 |
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