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Title: Impact of Spatial Variability in Designing and Implementing Risk Management and Rehabilitation Strategies for Peatlands in Southeast Asia
Date: 19-Mar-2002
Category: Workshop Papers
Source/Author: Eswaran Padmanabhan

Spatial variability has been a subject-matter of tremendous interest over the last two decades. However, as land attributes are essentially complicated in their composition and distribution, predicting the impact of spatial variability on the behaviour or response of systems to most management strategies has been challenging. There is a mismatch between the wealth of knowledge available on peatlands and the sustainability of management options utilized to conserve these non-renewable resources. The peatlands display tremendous spatial variability in critical physical and chemical properties. These properties have a major role in determining the quality of such systems. The subject matter is even more complicated when we evaluate these properties in termsof their inherent resilience to anthropogenically-induced changes. Designing risk-management strategies or even attempting to rehabilitate such systems requires examining these properties from the resilience stand point. Diminished output of response curves to resilience-based systems is apparent. The loss in terms of profitability cannot be argued. However, with the impact of spatial variability taken for granted, the gain in terms of preserving the original properties and maintaining the land quality ina truly sustainable manner is evident. It is therefore imperative that management strategies consider the impact of spatial variability to maintain stewardship over these non-renewable natural resources. 

Document Type Workshop paper


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