Land Use and Land Cover Change in Southeast Asia

Samek, Jay H.; Lan, Do Xuan; Silapathong, Chaowalit; Navanagruha, Charlie; Abdullah, Sharifah Masturah Syed; Gunawan, Iwan; Crisostomo, Bobby; Hilario, Flaviana D.; Hien, Hoang Minh; Skole, David L.; Chomentowski, Walter; Salas, William; Sanjaya, Hartanto

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-2562-4_7

Cited by 5 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 6 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…About 2.1 million km 2 in SEA is forest area, which equals 17% of the global tropical forests [59]. Since the 1700s, forest cover in this region has decreased dramatically due to agriculture expansion and urbanization [60]. For example, more than 50% of the oil palms in Malaysia and Indonesia in 2005 were forest in 1990 [61].…”

Section: Overview Of Swat In Southeast Asiamentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of SWAT Studies in Southeast Asia: Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

Tan

Gassman

Srinivasan

et al. 2019

Water

112

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model is recognized as one of the top hydrological models applied for addressing hydrologic and environmental issues. This is the first review on the SWAT model studies in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on its applications, current challenges and future research directions. A total of 126 articles were identified since 2006; roughly 50% of these studies were conducted in Vietnam or Thailand. About 16% of the studies were performed at a transnational scale, which included Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam. Model capability assessment, land use, and climate change assessment are the main SWAT applications that have been reported for the region. Most of the SWAT calibration and validation results for these studies were classified as satisfactory to very good results based on widely recognized performance indicators. However, the parameterization, calibration and validation procedures are not well reported in some articles. Availability of reliable data is one of the main problems that SWAT users are confronted with, as these data are either not freely available or restricted from public access in some countries. Hence, future studies should be considered on identification and development of reliable input data for SWAT modeling. SWAT model modification based on the SEA climate, geographical and land use conditions is another research direction to be considered in the future. Moreover, application of SWAT for extreme events simulation requires more attention in this region.

show abstract

Section: Overview Of Swat In Southeast Asiamentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of SWAT Studies in Southeast Asia: Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

Tan

Gassman

Srinivasan

et al. 2019

Water

112

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Since the early 1990s, LULC changes have gained significant attention from researchers and funding institutions seeking to quantify these changes and understand their underlying mechanisms (Gutman, 2004;National Research Council, 2005). Consequently, there is an important body of LULC change research conducted in a number of bs_bs_banner geographic regions and socio-political contexts, including Southeast Asia, the focus of this study (Walsh et al, 2001;Samek et al, 2004;Fox and Vogler, 2005;Cassidy et al, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying a Systematic Review to Land Use Land Cover Change in Northern Upland Vietnam: The Missing Case of the Borderlands

Pham

Turner

Trincsi

2015

Geographical Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

As Vietnam embraces the market economy, and a number of state policies promote reforestation and rural market integration, land use and land cover (LULC) changes are occurring in the country's northern uplands in increasingly complex and fragmented ways. Yet understandings of the degree and consequences of LULC changes in this diverse agro‐ecological region are incomplete. We conduct a systematic literature review of research reported in academic articles tracing and analysing LULC change in Vietnam's northern regions. We find that these studies have tended to take place away from the most mountainous, northern borderlands. The studies nonetheless highlight a diversity of land use land cover changes caused by numerous causes, making the distinction of overall trends difficult. To complement and extend this body of research, we introduce recent LULC change research we have completed in the mountainous border districts of Lào Cai province, on the Sino‐Vietnamese border. The heterogeneity of causes of LULC change in both the review articles and our case study points to the importance of adapting land use policies to local agro‐ecological and socio‐economic conditions and ethnic diversity, taking into account state–farmer relations, household livelihood decision‐making, and policy implementation at the commune and district levels.

show abstract

“…Forests in and around urban areas provide valuable ecosystem services in addition to carbon storage, such as air quality benefits, urban heat reduction, runoff prevention and the mental and physical health benefits of exposure to nature (Mcdonald et al, 2018a;Keeler et al, 2019). Studies have reported that over the last few decades there has been an unprecedented loss of forests in the SEA region, owing to a multitude of anthropogenic activities (Samek et al, 2012;Imai et al, 2018;Estoque et al, 2019). Addressing this aspect in our study, reforestation policies under SSP1 help in increasing forests via reduction in cropland and grasslands and thus increase carbon sequestration and other support associated ecosystem services.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also studies that focused on carbon dynamics found that NBS or NCS could contribute substantially to climate change mitigation via the protection, restoration, and improved management of forests, agricultural lands, grasslands and wetlands (Griscom et al, 2017;Goldstein et al, 2020;Koh et al, 2021;Teo et al, 2021;Dong et al, 2022). However, the literature to date indicates that a more comprehensive spatiotemporal characterization of urban growth and associated land cover transitions in SEA cities is still lacking along with the dynamics of LULC change scenarios on carbon sequestration services (Samek et al, 2012;Imai et al, 2018;Zeng et al, 2018;Estoque et al, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Carbon storage and sequestration in Southeast Asian urban clusters under future land cover change scenarios (2015–2050)

Kamarajugedda

Johnson

McDonald

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Land-use land-cover (LULC) changes are occurring rapidly in Southeast Asia (SEA), generally associated with population growth, economic development and competing demands for land. Land cover change is one of the vital factors affecting carbon dynamics and emissions. SEA is an important region to study urban-caused LULC emissions and the potential for nature-based solutions (NBS) and nature climate solutions (NCS), as it is home to nearly 15% of the world’s tropical forests and has some of the world’s fastest rates of urban growth. We present a fine-scale urban cluster level assessment for SEA of current (2015) and future (2050) scenarios for carbon sequestration service and climate mitigation potential. We identified 956 urban clusters distributed across 11 countries of SEA. Considering the urban expansion projected and decline in forests, this region could see a carbon loss of up to 0.11 Gigatonnes (Scenario SSP4 RCP 3.4). Comparing carbon change values to urban emissions, we found that the average offset value ranging from −2% (Scenario SSP1 RCP 2.6) to −21%. We also found that a few medium and large urban clusters could add to more than double the existing carbon emissions in 2050 in the SSP3 and SSP4 RCP 3.4 scenarios, while a minority of clusters could offset their emissions under SSP1. Our study confirms that NCS, and particularly reforestation, are in many cases able to offset the direct emissions from land cover conversion from SEA urban clusters. Hence, documenting the plausible LULC transitions and the associated impacts gains significance in the SEA region as the results can be useful for informing policy and sustainable land management.

show abstract

Land Use and Land Cover Change in Southeast Asia

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

A Review of SWAT Studies in Southeast Asia: Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

A Review of SWAT Studies in Southeast Asia: Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

Applying a Systematic Review to Land Use Land Cover Change in Northern Upland Vietnam: The Missing Case of the Borderlands

Carbon storage and sequestration in Southeast Asian urban clusters under future land cover change scenarios (2015–2050)

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About