Research agendas for the sustainable management of tropical peatland in Malaysia
There is a need for coordinated research for the sustainable management of tropical peatland. Malaysia has 6% of global tropical peat by area and peatlands there are subject to land use change at an unprecedented rate. This paper describes a stakeholder engagement exercise that identified 95 priorit...
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my.utm.540742016-08-24T04:31:28Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/54074/ Research agendas for the sustainable management of tropical peatland in Malaysia Padfield, Rory Waldron, Susan Drew, Simon Papargyropoulou, Effie Kumaran, Shashi Page, Susan Elizabeth Gilvear, David J. Armstrong, Alona S. B. Evers, Stephanie Williams, Paul Simon Zakaria, Zuriati Chin, Singyun Balle Hansen, Sune Campos-Arceiz, Ahimsa Latif, Mohd. Talib Sayok, Alex K. Tham, Munhou Q Science (General) There is a need for coordinated research for the sustainable management of tropical peatland. Malaysia has 6% of global tropical peat by area and peatlands there are subject to land use change at an unprecedented rate. This paper describes a stakeholder engagement exercise that identified 95 priority research questions for peatland in Malaysia, organized into nine themes. Analysis revealed the need for fundamental scientific research, with strong representation across the themes of environmental change, ecosystem services, and conversion, disturbance and degradation. Considerable uncertainty remains about Malaysia's baseline conditions for peatland, including questions over total remaining area of peatland, water table depths, soil characteristics, hydrological function, biogeochemical processes and ecology. More applied and multidisciplinary studies involving researchers from the social sciences are required. The future sustainability of Malaysian peatland relies on coordinating research agendas via a 'knowledge hub' of researchers, strengthening the role of peatlands in land-use planning and development processes, stricter policy enforcement, and bridging the divide between national and provincial governance. Integration of the economic value of peatlands into existing planning regimes is also a stakeholder priority. Finally, current research needs to be better communicated for the benefit of the research community, for improved societal understanding and to inform policy processes. Cambridge University Press 2015-03-07 Article PeerReviewed Padfield, Rory and Waldron, Susan and Drew, Simon and Papargyropoulou, Effie and Kumaran, Shashi and Page, Susan Elizabeth and Gilvear, David J. and Armstrong, Alona S. B. and Evers, Stephanie and Williams, Paul Simon and Zakaria, Zuriati and Chin, Singyun and Balle Hansen, Sune and Campos-Arceiz, Ahimsa and Latif, Mohd. Talib and Sayok, Alex K. and Tham, Munhou (2015) Research agendas for the sustainable management of tropical peatland in Malaysia. Environmental Conservation, 42 (1). pp. 73-83. ISSN 0376-8929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0376892914000034 DOI:10.1017/S0376892914000034 |
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There is a need for coordinated research for the sustainable management of tropical peatland. Malaysia has 6% of global tropical peat by area and peatlands there are subject to land use change at an unprecedented rate. This paper describes a stakeholder engagement exercise that identified 95 priority research questions for peatland in Malaysia, organized into nine themes. Analysis revealed the need for fundamental scientific research, with strong representation across the themes of environmental change, ecosystem services, and conversion, disturbance and degradation. Considerable uncertainty remains about Malaysia's baseline conditions for peatland, including questions over total remaining area of peatland, water table depths, soil characteristics, hydrological function, biogeochemical processes and ecology. More applied and multidisciplinary studies involving researchers from the social sciences are required. The future sustainability of Malaysian peatland relies on coordinating research agendas via a 'knowledge hub' of researchers, strengthening the role of peatlands in land-use planning and development processes, stricter policy enforcement, and bridging the divide between national and provincial governance. Integration of the economic value of peatlands into existing planning regimes is also a stakeholder priority. Finally, current research needs to be better communicated for the benefit of the research community, for improved societal understanding and to inform policy processes. |
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