J. Mcmorrow et Ma. Talip, Decline of forest area in Sabah, Malaysia: Relationship to state policies,land code and land capability, GLOBAL ENV, 11(3), 2001, pp. 217-230
Citations number
74
Categorie Soggetti
Environment/Ecology
Journal title
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
Forest decline in Sabah has resulted from state policies operating within t
he federal context. Approximately two-thirds of Sabah's natural forest rema
ins but estimates vary with the data source. Logging and shifting cultivati
on have degraded forest quality but commercial estate agriculture, especial
ly oil palm, is now the major cause of forest loss. aided by Sabah's land t
enure code and the ethnic equality and modernisation agendas of national an
d state agriculture policy. The pattern of forest decline is explained by p
artitioning of the land resource between gazetted Forest Reserves and land
alienated to agriculture, guided by the 1976 land capability classification
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