University of Twente Student Theses
Vulnerability Study of National Park as Approach to Integrate Nature Conservation and Regional Development (case study Lore Lindu National Park, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia)
Dahlan, Eru Nurfilmarasa (2010) Vulnerability Study of National Park as Approach to Integrate Nature Conservation and Regional Development (case study Lore Lindu National Park, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia).
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| Abstract: | Due to the ever increasing demand for space and resources, conservation has become the last resort for protecting nature and environment. Protected areas become more valuable for today’s and future life, given their essential function as biodiversity reserve, landscape conservation, indigenous people protection, ecosystem services and many other functions. In the recent years, in many places in the world, conservation areas are being threatened by human activities. Vulnerability assessment has become necessary in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness for management. Besides that, the vulnerability information can be a consideration for regional management authorities. Based on the management aim of Lore Lindu National Park, there are 3 types of vulnerability that should be assessed in order to derive a vulnerability map of national park: vulnerability to landscape diversity loss, vulnerability to biodiversity loss and vulnerability to forest loss. At the end of the analysis, all vulnerability types are united into one integrated vulnerability map. To produce each separate vulnerability map and the integrated vulnerability map, identifying criteria and weighing of the criteria through expert judgment are the most crucial parts. The criteria and weight for vulnerability of landscape diversity loss are: proximity to road (4.85); proximity to pathway (2.46), proximity to settlement (5.21), proximity to river (2.11), proximity to existing agriculture (4.46), physical factors (2.96) and population density (6.00). The criteria and weight for vulnerability of forest loss are: proximity to road (6.23); proximity to pathway (4.08), proximity to settlement (4.00), proximity to river (2.31), proximity to existing agriculture(3.62), slope steepness (2.77) and population density (4.85).While the criteria and weight for vulnerability of biodiversity loss are: proximity to road (4.39); proximity to pathway (4.39), proximity to settlement (5.14), proximity to river (2.14), proximity to existing agriculture(4.57), slope steepness (2.00) and population density (5.29). In addition to all criteria mentioned, the current state of the element at risk should be considered. Landscape uniqueness was used as current state for the vulnerability assessment of landscape diversity loss, forest cover is used as current state for vulnerability assessment of forest loss, and for the vulnerability assessment of biodiversity loss, the habitat of endangered species and unique species was used to represent the current state. In the last part of this thesis the integrated vulnerability map is crossed with LLNP spatial plan map and land cover map, resulting in 19 different management units. For each unit a vulnerability guided management alternative is proposed. Keywords: vulnerability, Lore Lindu National Park, threat, conservation areas |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | ITC: Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation |
| Programme: | Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation MSc (75014) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/90719 |
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