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| Title | Land Cover Changes, Forest Loss and Degradation in Kutai Barat, Indonesia | | Author | M. Thoha Zulkarnain, Chandra Irawadi Wijaya and Atiek Widayati | | Year | 2014 | | Publisher | World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Southeast Asia Regional Program | | City of Publication | Bogor, Indonesia | | Series Number | Working Paper No. 188 | | Number of Pages | 34 | | Call Number | WP0185-15 | | Keywords | Land cover changes, forest degradation, deforestation, trajectories, hierarchical object-based classification |
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| As part of efforts on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) and low CO2 emission development planning for Kutai Barat district, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, it is important to obtain estimates of the land cover changes and the change trajectories. The information is useful for further assessments on CO2 emissions, trade-off as well as for inputs in land use planning. The objectives of the study are to produce four time series of land cover data, to analyze land cover changes and trajectories in the district, and to analyze forest deforestation and degradation in Kutai Barat District. Four time series Landsat Imageries (1990, 2000, 2005 and 2010) were utilised, and herarchichal object-based classification method was employed for the map production. The result demonstrates that most of forest loss in Kutai Barat during 1990 – 2010 was caused by changes from degraded forest (especially open and closed Tree.Evergreen-broadleaved) to rubber agroforests, rubber plantations and shrub land; this latter change implying forest degradation due to timber extraction. Most forest loss and forest degradation occur in Production Forest zones (Hutan Produksi) where tree cutting is legal. However, there is as well degradation taking place in Protection Forest zone (Hutan Lindung) which implies illegal activities. For a district where natural resources still play a major role in the development and economic growth, locally appropriate strategies on land-use planning and its implementation should be comprehensively designed in order to maintain good environmental practices. |
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