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Economic valuation of potential urban heritage trees in Kuching City for conservation purpose

The rapid growth of urban areas has cause the increase of land use changes which modify most natural enviroment to built enviroment. during this modification process, many urban trees were felled to give way to urban development which uses materials that effectively retain heat which corresponds to...

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Main Author: Raine Melissa, anak Riman.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2011
Subjects:
SB Plant culture
SD Forestry
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13487/1/Raine%20Melissa%20Riman%20ft.pdf
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spelling my.unimas.ir.134872023-07-03T07:53:04Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13487/ Economic valuation of potential urban heritage trees in Kuching City for conservation purpose Raine Melissa, anak Riman. SB Plant culture SD Forestry The rapid growth of urban areas has cause the increase of land use changes which modify most natural enviroment to built enviroment. during this modification process, many urban trees were felled to give way to urban development which uses materials that effectively retain heat which corresponds to the increase in average temperature of the urban areas resulting in urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon. Mitigation of the UHI effect can be accomplished by having more trees which provides natural shade, the ability to sequest carbon, also reducing ambient temperature through evapotranspiration process. Most people do not realize that these green assets are crucial to the urban enviroment in consideration of their enviromental services, social benefits, and also economic benefits. Therefore, the needs to intensify conservation, funding and community support from urban greening calls for a proper valuation on potential urban heritage trees together with a proper formation of a legal policy on protecting and conserving the trees in order to achieve sustainable development. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2011 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13487/1/Raine%20Melissa%20Riman%20ft.pdf Raine Melissa, anak Riman. (2011) Economic valuation of potential urban heritage trees in Kuching City for conservation purpose. Masters thesis, Faculty of Resources Science & Technology.
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SD Forestry
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SD Forestry
Raine Melissa, anak Riman.
Economic valuation of potential urban heritage trees in Kuching City for conservation purpose
description The rapid growth of urban areas has cause the increase of land use changes which modify most natural enviroment to built enviroment. during this modification process, many urban trees were felled to give way to urban development which uses materials that effectively retain heat which corresponds to the increase in average temperature of the urban areas resulting in urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon. Mitigation of the UHI effect can be accomplished by having more trees which provides natural shade, the ability to sequest carbon, also reducing ambient temperature through evapotranspiration process. Most people do not realize that these green assets are crucial to the urban enviroment in consideration of their enviromental services, social benefits, and also economic benefits. Therefore, the needs to intensify conservation, funding and community support from urban greening calls for a proper valuation on potential urban heritage trees together with a proper formation of a legal policy on protecting and conserving the trees in order to achieve sustainable development.
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author Raine Melissa, anak Riman.
author_facet Raine Melissa, anak Riman.
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title Economic valuation of potential urban heritage trees in Kuching City for conservation purpose
title_short Economic valuation of potential urban heritage trees in Kuching City for conservation purpose
title_full Economic valuation of potential urban heritage trees in Kuching City for conservation purpose
title_fullStr Economic valuation of potential urban heritage trees in Kuching City for conservation purpose
title_full_unstemmed Economic valuation of potential urban heritage trees in Kuching City for conservation purpose
title_sort economic valuation of potential urban heritage trees in kuching city for conservation purpose
publisher Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
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