Modelling for integrated drainage basin management

Real world environmental processes are typically three dimensional, times dependent and complex. The processes also compose of non-linear behaviour, stochastic components and feedback loops over multiple time and space scales. To understand these in entirely are impossible and environmental managers...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Hadi Harman Shah, Abdul Samad Hadi
Format:	Article
Published:	Environmental Management Society, Malaysia 2000
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2156/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2156/

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spelling	ukm-21562011-07-04T04:27:30Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2156/ Modelling for integrated drainage basin management Abdul Hadi Harman Shah, Abdul Samad Hadi, Real world environmental processes are typically three dimensional, times dependent and complex. The processes also compose of non-linear behaviour, stochastic components and feedback loops over multiple time and space scales. To understand these in entirely are impossible and environmental managers and scientists often resort to the process of modelling in order to simplify real world processes. An integrated drainage basin management endeavour often requires the use of modelling to clarify the interpenetration of the different components, making sense of an otherwise extremely complex ecosystem. However, an understanding of what a model is capable of is important in order to use it as an enabling tool in environmental management. This paper presents a discussion on modelling a drainage basin for the purpose of development planning and environmental management. Using the Langat basin study as a case study, the paper outlines the objectives, interrelations and procedures in developing an environmental management model using the concepts of vulnerability and ecosystem health. The paper also discusses planning and management issues resulting from the development and use of the model. While the model itself is still a work in progress, the paper hopes to highlight significant considerations of using environment modelling for the purpose of integrated drainage basin management Environmental Management Society, Malaysia 2000 Article PeerReviewed Abdul Hadi Harman Shah, and Abdul Samad Hadi, (2000) Modelling for integrated drainage basin management. Malaysian Journal of Environmental Management, 1 . pp. 113-141. ISSN 1511-7855 http://www.ems-malaysia.org/mjem/index.html
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description	Real world environmental processes are typically three dimensional, times dependent and complex. The processes also compose of non-linear behaviour, stochastic components and feedback loops over multiple time and space scales. To understand these in entirely are impossible and environmental managers and scientists often resort to the process of modelling in order to simplify real world processes. An integrated drainage basin management endeavour often requires the use of modelling to clarify the interpenetration of the different components, making sense of an otherwise extremely complex ecosystem. However, an understanding of what a model is capable of is important in order to use it as an enabling tool in environmental management. This paper presents a discussion on modelling a drainage basin for the purpose of development planning and environmental management. Using the Langat basin study as a case study, the paper outlines the objectives, interrelations and procedures in developing an environmental management model using the concepts of vulnerability and ecosystem health. The paper also discusses planning and management issues resulting from the development and use of the model. While the model itself is still a work in progress, the paper hopes to highlight significant considerations of using environment modelling for the purpose of integrated drainage basin management
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author	Abdul Hadi Harman Shah, Abdul Samad Hadi,
spellingShingle	Abdul Hadi Harman Shah, Abdul Samad Hadi, Modelling for integrated drainage basin management
author_facet	Abdul Hadi Harman Shah, Abdul Samad Hadi,
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title	Modelling for integrated drainage basin management
title_short	Modelling for integrated drainage basin management
title_full	Modelling for integrated drainage basin management
title_fullStr	Modelling for integrated drainage basin management
title_full_unstemmed	Modelling for integrated drainage basin management
title_sort	modelling for integrated drainage basin management
publisher	Environmental Management Society, Malaysia
publishDate	2000
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2156/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2156/
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