Proceedings Of The Southeast Asian Moving Workshop Of Conservation Management And Utilization Of Forest Genetic Resources

Pemeliharaan dan Pemuliharaan Alam Sekitar di Malaysia memuatkan 12 bab yang diusahakan oleh penulis dari latar ilmu yang pelbagai sebagai reaksi mereka terhadap kepentingan memelihara dan memulihara alam sekitar di Malaysia. Buku ini ditulis untuk memberi pengetahuan, maklumat dan kesedaran tentang isu-isu berkaitan pemeliharaan dan pemuliharaan alam sekitar di Malaysia agar alam sekitar terus terpelihara. Hal ini kerana persoalan alam sekitar semakin penting dan menyerlah dalam kehidupan seharian masyarakat dan menjadi agenda utama dalam pembangunan negara. Alam sekitar sangat penting dipelihara dan dipulihara kerana ia bukan sahaja memberikan perkhidmatan kepada manusia tetapi juga merupakan sistem bantuan kehidupan yang tidak ternilai. Semoga buku ini dapat mengisi ruang yang belum diliputi oleh buku lain di samping menampung kekurangan tersebut dalam usaha memupuk sikap prihatin dan sifat kecintaan yang mendalam terhadap alam sekitar.

The second edition of the Greater Mekong Subregion Atlas of the Environment again champions the environment of this unique part of Asia, an area straddled by rivers great and small, with bountiful watersheds, wetlands, and forests. The Atlas celebrates the peoples of the subregion, and presents the environmental and development challenges they face and their responses. It reminds us that the subregion’s peoples and communities are key to maintaining its environment. The Atlas captures in one volume maps, remote-sensing images, and essential information on one of the most culturally, ethnically, and biologically diverse regions in the world. The subregion is made up of Cambodia; Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province of the People’s Republic of China; the Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Myanmar; Thailand; and Vietnam

In this "Tropical Peatland Eco-management" book, eco-management is new terminology as an abbreviation of "ecology-based management for natural capital enhancement". Key concept on this eco-management is derived from previous book: "Tropical Peatland Ecosystem"(Springer, 2015, eds. by M. Osaki and N. Tsuji). Based on this new concept, this book thoroughly examines tropical peatland eco-management for scientists, political decision makers, governmental officials, land managers, students, and NGO/NPOs who are interested in 1) what the impact of peatland on climate change and ecosystem function, 2) how the management of disturbed peatland, and 3) drawing global scale restoration mechanisms of peatland and wetland. In tropical peatland, a large amount of GHGs (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) is emitted due to the unappropriate development and inadequate management of peatland. The peatland ecosystems consist of the carbon–water complex, which is affected easily by the impact of human and climate change. Throughout much research of tropical peatland, the problems that result from development of tropical peatland are found to stem mainly from a lack of understanding of the complexities of this ecosystem and the fragility of the relationship between peat and forest and also between carbon and water. In past, almost all peatland development and management system have been generally designed on “water drainage system”. On the contrast of old system, an innovated eco- management is, here, proposed as “water irrigation system”, including water cycling and natural capital enhancement. Through this book readers will learn the advanced peatland eco-management, with more practical methods and procedure based on ecosystem knowledge.