TY  - GEN
T1  - Sustainable agriculture in the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
A1  - Barrow, C.J.
LA  - English
PB  - School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia
YR  - 2016
UL  - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/oai:http:--agris.upm.edu.my:0-11679
AB  - The Cameron Highlands are `at risk`, especially from environmentally damaging farming, insensitive building, and some forms of tourism development. Present day farming activities are unsustainable and are already degrading, or are soon likely to damage tourism, biodiversity, hydropower generation, and the quality of life of many people in the highlands and in the surrounding lowlands. The impacts of highland development are increasingly felt further afield, especially through the degradation of the water quality and flow regime of streams, which run to surrounding lowlands. Opportunities should be grasped to develop more sensitive agriculture, tourism, forest product extraction, and building strategies. The established farming, tourism, building, and forest product extraction are profitable. Understandably those involved and various institutions will hesitate to initiate changes which could reduce profitability, however, without some reinvestment and control the longer term prospects are for economic decline and serious environmental damage. More awareness of global and regional environmental change is also desirable. Because impacts are felt accross broad swathes of the lowlands it is in the interests of the Federal Government and surrounding States to invest in Cameron Highlands improvements. Unfortunately, the lowland `offsite` impacts are effectively hidden from those causing them, and people in the lowlands have yet to link their welfare with environmental management of highlands. A key step will be to present the full costs (including lowland impacts) in a way that can be compared with the financial benefits of current farming tourism and building. Opportunities must be grasped to prompt better environmental management and to pursue sustainable development. Somehow, those involved in farming, tourism, and forest product extraction have to be encouraged and supported to adopt sustainable, less damaging alternatives (Barrow, in press, Barrow, et al., 2004). One possibility is to encourage `dovetailing`- integrated development of activities, which are mutually supportive. There appears to be potential for farmers, tourism developers, those concerned with biodiversity conservation, and Orang Asli peoples involved in forest product extraction to work together toward sustainable development.
KW  - SUSTAINABILITY
KW  - AGRICULTURE
KW  - BIODIVERSITY
KW  - ZONING
KW  - ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
KW  - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
KW  - MALAYSIA
KW  - DURABILITE
KW  - BIODIVERSITE
KW  - ZONAGE
KW  - GESTION DE L`ENVIRONNEMENT
KW  - DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE
KW  - MALAISIE
KW  - SOSTENIBILIDAD
KW  - AGRICULTURA
KW  - BIODIVERSIDAD
KW  - ZONIFICACION
KW  - GESTION AMBIENTAL
KW  - DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE
KW  - MALASIA
KW  - http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_33560
KW  - http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_203
KW  - http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_33949
KW  - http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_36936
KW  - http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_37875
KW  - http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_35332
KW  - http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_4533
ER  -