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Transforming Borneo From land exploitation to sustainable development

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The past five decades of land-use change in Borneo mark an unprecedented, vivid example ofland exploitation to induce economic development. Borneo, the world's third-largest island located in Southeast Asia (Figure I.I), was endowed with one of the oldest rainforests in the world. However, since the 1970s the island has experienced rampant timber extraction on a massive scale; a huge amount of valuable tropical wood was logged and exported, either as raw logs or plywood, resulting in millions of hectares of deforestation and forest degradation. In total, about 20 million ha of old-growth forests were destroyed from 1973 to 2018, largely due to human activities (CIFOR 2020).
In the 1980s, the cultivation of oil palm, a lucrative cash crop grown mainly for export, was introduced throughout the island. By 2018, about 22 million tonnes of the world's vegetable oils (12 per cent) came from the island, compared to 5 million tonnes in 2000 (FAOSTAT 2021). The widespread logging and replacement of forests with oil palm and other crops has resulted in serious degradation of peatland (mainly in Central Kalimantan, Sarawak and West Kalimantan) and greatly escalated the risk of fires, especially during periodic long droughts (Santika, Budiharta, et al. 2020). Repeated peat and forest fires have led not only to enormous carbon stock loss but also transboundary haze that has exerted detrimental health impacts over the entire region (Zhang and Savage 2019)

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Ketersediaan — Departemen Perencanaan Wilayah dan Kota

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

333.73095983 GOh t

Penerbit

Singapore : ISEAS., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

xix, 358p .; il .;: 25cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-5011-64-7

Klasifikasi

333.73095983

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Tipe Media

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Subjek

Sustainable Development
Economic development
Land use-Borneo

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Chun Sheng Goh

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