9.1.05
Hi,
This weekend, I've been staying home reading two yearbooks--by IFLA. published in 1990 and 1991, these books provided good materials for my research. The theme of 1990 was tropical landscapes while 1991 focused on coastal landscapes. While many countries have good policies and legislation for protection of their landscapes/ seascapes, Malaysia has always lack behind in its policy for protecting our valuable assets.
It is sad to see Malaysia do not recognize our coastal landscapes worthy of protection. We have long coastlines strecthing from Perlis to Kelantan and up till Sabah. But we do not have legislation for their protection. And many of the settlements living there for centuries are Malays. These rural and our countryside, with outstanding landscape characters, must be protected if we really value our history, people and country.
My readings in landscape architecture literature have defined these as natural and cultural landscapes. In IUCN, they are called protected landscapes/ seascapes under the protected areas systems.
In one of the papers that I read, there is a method where it uses card register of all landscapes.
I will do a pilot survey (as a draft instrument) in Kemaman when my wife brings her students there in the next two weeks.
---K
posted by kam @ 10:43 AM
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