Development in Malaysia: A landscape approach

Year, pages: 1985, 241 - 251

Geographers have much to contribute toward solving problems of major environmental concern if they return to some of the traditional roots o£ their discipline and develop these in a scientific way by applying them in an integrated, synthetic manner and focus upon a holistic approach to environmental problems. This approach is illustrated by reference to the land development process in Peninsular Malaysia from c. 1850 to the present. Questions discussed revolve around the issue of environmental stability of changing land use patterns. A basic question relates to how natural process dynamics have, or have not, been replicated as the landscape has become increasingly humanized. The overall consequences of these developments raise further questions concerning the internal stability and diversity of individual land uses, their mix in the regional land use spectrum and the importance of retaining areas of natural forest within planned land uses.

Moss, M. 1985. Development in Malaysia: A landscape approach. In Geografický časopis, vol. 37, no.2-3, pp. 241-251. 0016-7193.

Moss, M. (1985). Development in Malaysia: A landscape approach. Geografický časopis, 37(2-3), 241-251. 0016-7193.

Publisher: Geografický ústav SAV/Institute of Geography of the Slovak Academy of Sciences