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Book SynopsisThis edited book covers major importance of tropical forest diversity and its values to vegetation, wildlife, and the local community. It addresses the current issues and opportunities in the Southeast Asia’s tropical forests. This book lays the groundwork for a better understanding of tropical forest ecosystem services. Ecosystem services has four concepts: provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services. In an era of rapid population growth and increasing pressure on tropical natural resources, ecosystem services have become central to the discussion of climate change mitigation. The values of tropical forest ecosystem services deserve to be the highlighted when it comes to shaping responsible behaviors towards sustainable development goals (SDGs). This book is of interest and useful to researchers and academics teaching in the field of tropical forest conservation, tropical ecosystems, tropical products technology, ecotourism, forest plantation management, bio industrial economy, agroforestry business and marketing. Professionals, foresters, industrial entrepreneurs, ecologists, and a valuable source of reference to the relevant researchers and students in the region.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Conservation of Tropical Forest for the Well-being of Community.- Chapter 2. Forest Pathology in Ecosystem Services.- Chapter 3. Non-Timber Forest Problems: NTFPs in Conservation and Development Initiatives.- Chapter 4. Characterizing and assessing forest density and productivity of Ulu Muda Forest Reserve based on satellite imageries.- Chapter 5. Temporal Reduction of Forest Ecosystem Services and Drivers of Deforestation.- Chapter 6. A Trade-Off Analysis of Sustainable Landscape Planning: A Case Study of Sintang Regency (Heart of Borneo), Kalimantan.- Chapter 7. Land Use and Land Cover Change Prediction using ANN-CA model.- Chapter 8. Linking Blue-Green Infrastructure to Micoclimate and Human Thermal Comfort for Urban Cooling: A review.- Chapter 9. Assessing the Community Participation in Ecotourism at Ulu Muda Forest Reserve Malaysia.- Chapter 10. Improving Livelihood of Sugar Palm Community in Malaysia.- Chapter 11. Local community involvement in Mangrove Forest conservation and edutourism in Kampung Sijangkang.- Chapter 12. The Resilience of the Natural Resource Dependency of Indigenous People in a Wilderness Area: The Case of Virachey National Park, Cambodia.- Chapter 13. Reconciling the values and needs of wildlife and local communities: A way forward to deal with human-wildlife conflicts in Malaysia.
