scholarly journals Resilience of Pontian Farmers in the Face of the Impact Changes of Rapid Development in Iskandar Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-87
Author(s):  
Joharudin Samion ◽  
Ismail Said ◽  
Lee Yoke Lai ◽  
Tun Mohd Irfan Mohd Suria Affandi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Earth Satellite ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
The Face ◽  
Use Pattern ◽  
The Impact

The issues of community resilience arise from the need to develop an understanding of how people would respond to internal and external disturbances. In-depth discussion towards the impact of a city to a neighbouring district has little been discussed. The District of Pontian is located west of Iskandar Malaysia. It has received an unprecedented level of infrastructural development to boost the economy of Iskandar Malaysia. This study examines the land use pattern change of Pontian District impacted by Iskandar Malaysia. Additionally, the study aims to assess the social, economic and environmental capital and the factors that contribute to the adaptabilities and resilience of farmer communities in Pontian. Build-up area for each period using Google earth satellite imagery from the year 2005 to 2015, was classified to analyze the change of build-up area. Markov Chains technique is applied to predict changes of land use. Next, survey questionnaires were utilized to measure the levels of community resilience. Subsequently, an interview was employed to identify the factors that contribute to the stresses. The results indicate that rapid development of Iskandar Malaysia gave an impact to agricultural land and changed the land use pattern of Pontian. The findings revealed the perspective of individuals, community, and system resilience capacity to survive. It was found that farmers were able to adapt to various stresses. The result indicates that individuals and communities can be adaptive, absorptive, and transformative. The findings can assist in formulation of strategies for communities to be better prepared for the current and future impact of the triple threat of urbanization, globalization and climate change.

scholarly journals ANALYZING LAND USE PATTERN CHANGES IN MUKIM PENGERANG, JOHOR, MALAYSIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Noordini Binti Che Man ◽  
Anis Farhan Binti Salihin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Diversity Index ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Edge Density ◽  
Spatiotemporal Pattern ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Use Pattern

Urbanization and urban land-use transition have a competitive environment to ensure and provide good facilities for citizen benefit. The landscape patterns resulting from urbanization effect processes at local, regional, and global scales. Quantifying the spatiotemporal pattern of urbanization is important for understanding its ecological impacts and can provide basic information for appropriate decision-making. The growth of urbanization in Mukim Pengerang, Johor, has undergone rapid changes in agriculture, settlements, townships and various activities. The changes of land use take place in Mukim Pengerang due to the rapid economic development, especially in industrializations which are Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project and Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex (PIPC). The industrialization boosts the growth in land property and commercial which progressing in rapid development since the year 2012, in resulting whether it can give good, bad or both impact to the human and surrounding. Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to quantify the changes in landscape pattern or land use pattern between the year 2008 and 2017 occurred in Mukim Pengerang. In monitoring the spatial pattern changes, and the changes of landscape structure, the metrics landscape were analyzed with determination of the Shanon Diversity Index (SHDI), the number of patches (NP), Edge Density (ED) and Total Edge (TE) in the period of 8 years. The results show that the changes occurred with the three types of land use showed significant changes in the types of land use which are forest, agricultural and built-up area. The result of SHDI analysis shows the increment value between the year 2008 and 2017. This situation illustrates that the higher value of SHDI for an area, resulting in the higher level of land use. This is because the growing pattern of land use is reflected by a large number of patches due to the diversification of land use activities in the area. As a result, from the metrics statistics test verifies there was a significant change in land use that took place within 8 years.

scholarly journals Prospects and retrospects of land use system through agroforestry practices in Meherpur district, Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
MS Hosain ◽  
MW Islam
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Structure Questionnaire ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Remarkable Change ◽  
Land Use System ◽  
Use Pattern ◽  
Agro Forestry ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Agroforestry Practices

The study aims to explore the prospects and retrospects of land use system through agroforestry practices in Meherpur district, Bangladesh. It particularly focuses on some aspects of land uses of the study area like land use pattern, land ownership, choices of species for agroforestry, farmers’ perceptions towards agroforestry, status and prospects of agroforestry practices. This study was carried out by using mixed method followed by a semi-structure questionnaire. A total of 100 respondents were selected by using snowball purposive sampling method. The study revealed that agriculture was the major occupation (50%) of the selected respondents. Of the total land used by selected respondents, 21% land were used for agroforestry, 69% for agriculture and remaining 10% for homestead purposes. Most of the farmers (60%) were small landholders (1 to 5 acres) and 18% had lesser than 1 acre land. Among them 76% had their own land followed by 8% leased land and 16% both own and leased land. They preferred agroforestry in their homestead (92%), agricultural land (65%), water body (31%) and fallow land (18%). The farmers were practicing different types of agroforestry such as cropland, homestead and aquaculture with boundary plantation by mixing trees, agricultural crops and vegetables in their farmlands to receive diversified outcomes. A remarkable change in land use pattern was found after adopting agroforestry practices in this study area. Maximum respondents practiced agro-forestry in their homestead and croplands. Most of the land (67%) was used for agriculture cultivation while a very small amount of land was used as agroforestry in the study area.Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. & Tech. 7 (2): 1-6, December, 2017

scholarly journals GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF URBAN LAND USE PATTERN ANALYSIS FOR HEMORRHAGIC FEVER RISK – A REVIEW

2016 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W1 ◽  
pp. 37-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. N. Izzah ◽  
Z. Majid ◽  
M. A. M. Ariff ◽  
C. K. Fook
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Hemorrhagic Fever ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Pathogen Transmission ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Use Pattern ◽  
The Impact

Human modification of the natural environment continues to create habitats in which vectors of a wide variety of human and animal pathogens (such as Plasmodium, Aedes aegypti, Arenavirus etc.) thrive if unabated with an enormous potential to negatively affect public health. Typical examples of these modifications include impoundments, dams, irrigation systems, landfills and so on that provide enabled environment for the transmission of Hemorrhagic fever such as malaria, dengue, avian flu, Lassa fever etc. Furthermore, contemporary urban dwelling pattern appears to be associated with the prevalence of Hemorrhagic diseases in recent years. These observations are not peculiar to the developing world, as urban expansion also contributes significantly to mosquito and other vectors habitats. This habitats offer breeding ground to some vector virus populations. The key to disease control is developing an understanding of the contribution of human landscape modification to vector-borne pathogen transmission and how a balance may be achieved between human development, public health, and responsible urban land use. A comprehensive review of urban land use Pattern Analysis for Hemorrhagic fever risk has been conducted in this paper. The study found that most of the available literatures dwell more on the impact of urban land use on malaria and dengue fevers; however, studies are yet to be found discussing the implications of urban land use on the risk of Ebola, Lassa and other non-mosquito borne VHFs. A relational model for investigating the influence of urban land use change pattern on the risk of Hemorrhagic fever has been proposed in this study.

scholarly journals SPATIAL CHANGES OF LAND USE PATTERN IN GUZELBAHCE DISTRICT (IZMIR)

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-3/W4 ◽  
pp. 405-411
Author(s):  
N. S. Partigöç ◽  
Ç. Tarhan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Land Use Decisions ◽  
Use Pattern

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The primary issues related the spatial organization of urban settlements are based on the development of density and land use decisions leading due to the market mechanisms. The current spatial land use pattern of cities have emerged depending various factors such as the migration movements increased rapidly from the 1950s, the rapid and uncontrolled urbanization, the pressures of rent directing the market mechanisms, etc. This urbanization process also has accompanied many problems as the insecure construction for disasters, dense and solid urban texture, various weaknesses or deficiencies of urban infrastructure. As a consequence of the evaluation for social facility areas (gaps in urban area, open and green areas, etc.) as “potential investment areas”, the loss of solid &amp;ndash; void ratio and dense built-environment have been experienced in urban centres and also urban development directions. The main aim of this study is to examine the spatial effects of land use decisions between the years of 2002 &amp;ndash; 2017 under the influence of the Law 6360 in terms of urban planning discipline. These spatial variations related land use pattern are determined using Google Earth and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). According to the results, it is clearly understood that current land use patterns in Guzelbahce district have changed significantly in 15-years period. The results of analyses related the case area which the urban sprawl has seen are discussed and a variety of policies have been developed.</p>

scholarly journals Spatiotemporal Monitoring and Prediction of Land Use Integrating the Markov Chain and Cellular Automata in the Coastal Chaouia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1704-1711
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Markov Chain ◽  
Cellular Automata ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
World Population ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
The Face ◽  
Agricultural Use ◽  
The Impact

In the last decades, the world population rate has been gradually increasing, this population growth has faced intense urban expansion and the rapid development of the agricultural and industrial sectors. This change had an impact on the mode of land use. In the face of this problem, several strategies have been created for monitoring and predicting possible future scenarios on rhythm of land use change. The CA-Markov model used in this research allows to predict future land use trends on the basis of the classified maps of 1987, 1999, 2011 and 2019. Simulating and tracking these maps is a major challenge. The latter provides important information in terms of data, methods and models to be used to create a realistic and sustainable process of territory planning for environmentalists, planners and local authorities. The combination of the Markov chain and cellular automata has been used to qualitatively and quantitatively simulate and evaluate future land use trends in coastal Chaouia, Morocco. To achieve this purpose, two maps were developed for the two years of 2027 and 2035. By using kappa, the global success of the modelling was 89.22% and 82.12% respectively in 2011 and 2019 for the projected land use map. The results confirm that forests have been affected by intensive agricultural uses. This increase in agricultural use is due to the impact of the constant increase in the development of the agroeconomic and demographic sectors. This situation indicates the need to create new approach to management to protect the sustainability of land use in coastal Chaouia.

scholarly journals Impact of Landform on Agricultural Land Use Pattern: A Case Study of Salda River Basin in Purulia District, West Bengal

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar Mahato ◽  
N. C. Jana
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Use Pattern ◽  
Purulia District ◽  
Geomorphic Processes

The present study is concerned with the analysis of landform characteristics of Salda River basin and its impact on agriculture land use pattern. The Salda basin is one of the sub-basins of Subarnarekha River, with diversified landscape pattern in the western part of Purulia district in West Bengal. This basin is constituted by plateaus, plains with terraces, scarps, inselbergs, which is evolved under polycyclic evolution. The development of polycyclic geomorphic processes in this basin is typified by diverse morphology and drainage, which largely influence the land use pattern in this area. These diverse landscape patterns indicate the interaction of litho-tectonic-structural and various geomorphic processes with recent human intervention. The main objectives of the present study are to analyse the landforms characteristics, correlate them with land use and identify problems as well as prospects of agricultural land utilization. The entire study is based on both primary and secondary data. Extensive field survey has been conducted to collect primary information regarding terrain characteristics, micro relief, slope characteristics, hydrological attributes, soil character, natural vegetation, environmental hazards. The Survey of India topographical sheets, meteorological data, agricultural production data, land use and land cover data have been collected for the analysis of geomorphological characteristics, land classification, and agricultural land use pattern. This study reflects the typical land characteristics of the fringe area of Chhotanagpur plateau, where some typical geomorphic attributes control the productivity of the land and also controls the socio-economic conditions of the local people. The present authors have tried to examine the typical geomorphic attributes and their effects on present productivity of the land in a micro level study, where agriculture is the main source of income.

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