| dc.description.abstract | NAJMATUL KHAIRAT : Analysis of Land Cover Change in Belawan watershed
period 2000-2011. Under the supervision of RAHMAWATY AND ABDUL RAUF.
Watershed ( DAS ) Belawan is a very complex area utilization . Utilization
and management of the less noticed aspects of the sustainability of a watershed
area will lead to pressure for Belawan watershed conditions . This studied aims to
determined land cover change and the factors that influenced changes in land
cover. Changes in land cover extensive analysis performed used change detection
methods in Arc View GIS tool . The factors that caused changes in land cover
analisis used Analytical Hierarchy Process ( AHP ) .
The results showed plantations throughout the year 2000-2011 and having
a mix of dryland farming area reduction into primary dryland agriculture .
Secondary mangrove forest , dryland farming and mixed shrub swamp has been
changed into the pond . Dryland agriculture and open land is also changing land
cover into field . The rate of change of the most dominant land cover in Das
Belawan is dryland farming into field . The main factors causing land cover
change is the conversion of land in the watershed region , and socio - cultural
circumstances as factors of education, employment and daily habits of people
living in the watershed . Having analyzed using AHP method , income and
activities of stakeholders involved in the economic criteria into the causes of
changes in land cover in the watershed Belawan and offered an alternative to the
causal factors of land cover change is law enforcement. | en_US |
