Tropical Lowland Peatlands of Southeast Asia

Proceedings of a Workshop on Integrated Planning and Management of Tropical Lowland Peatlands

Edited by E. Maltby, C. P Immirzi and R. J. Safford

This work forms part of a preparatory phase leading to a handbook providing guidelines for the sustainable utilization and integrated management of tropical peatlands. The papers cover the resource and its conservation; social cultural and economic factors affecting utilization; forestry management approaches; case studies; and concludes with a summary of the workshop sessions focusing on future directions.

294pp, ISBN 2-8317-0310-7, 1996. Price: £13.50/US$20

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. The sustainable utilisation of tropical peatlands - E. Maltby and C.P. Immirzi

Part 1: The Resource

2. The extent and nature of tropical peat swamps - J.O. Rieley, A.A. Ahmad-Shah and M.A. Brady

3. The vegetation of tropical peat swamp forests - J.O. Rieley and A.A. Ahmad-Shah

4. Peatlands in Southeast Asia: a regional perspective - Pisoot Vijarnsorn

5. A note on the formation of peat deposits in Indonesia - Azwar Maas

Part 2: Conserving the Resource

6. Management and conservation of the tropical peat forest of Indonesia - Ambar Dwiyono and Saeful Rqachman

7. The peat swamp forests of Thailand - Chavalit Urapeepatanapong and Picha Pitayakajornwute

8. Production functions of peat swamp forests in Sarawak - H.S. Lee and Francis Chai

Part 3: Challenges to Utilisation

9. Constraints to achieving the agricultural potential of tropical peatlands - an Indonesian perspective - Tejoyuwono Notohadiprawiro

10. Peatlands in Indonesia: their extent and utilisation - Soetjipto, Suryanto and Azwar Maas

11. Social, cultural and economic factors that influence the sustainable development of peatlands - P. Burbridge

Part 4: Forestry Management Approaches

12. Forest management systems in peat swamp forest: a Malaysian perspective - Shamsudin Ibrahim

13. Sustainable forest management in the mixed swamp forest of Sarawak - H.S. Lee and Francis Chai

Part 5: Case Studies

14. Peat and acid sulphate soils: a case study from Vietnam - E. Maltby, P. Burbridge and A. Fraser

15. Development problems and perspectives in the peat swamp of Southern Thailand: results from a villager survey - C.P. Immirzi, E. Maltby and P. Vijarnsorn

16. Towards integrated management of swamp forests: a case study from Sumatra - M.J. Silvius and W. Giesen

Part 6: Summary of Workshop Sessions

Summary of workshop sessions - E. Maltby and C.P. Immirzi

List of Participants