SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE AREAS AS PROVIDERS OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES IN THE KRUENG PEUSANGAN WATERSHED, ACEH PROVINCE

Tito Eka Syafjanuar; Ichwana Ramli; Nasrul Arahman

doi:10.22373/ijes.v2i1.4737

Tito Eka Syafjanuar Teknik Lingkungan
Ichwana Ramli 2Department of Agricultural Engineering, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Nasrul Arahman Department of Chemical Engineering, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5077-2867

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22373/ijes.v2i1.4737

Keywords: High Conservation Value, Land Cover, Geographic Information System

Abstract

Watershed is a unity of ecosystem from upstream to downstream consisting of the main elements of soil, vegetation, water, and air. Watershed has an important function in sustainable community economic development. Changes in land use result in most of the rainwater flowing as surface water which directly or indirectly has caused land degradation. This study aims to identify the presence of high conservation value areas as providers of natural environmental services in the Krueng Peusangan watershed. This study used the HCV Toolkit Indonesia approach and SIG analysis with a tiered quantitative method of slope, soil type, land cover and averaged daily rainfall intensity. The results obtained showed that the Krueng Peusangan watershed has 40.54% of high conservation value areas as providers of natural environmental services, with 23.15% of water supply and flood control areas and 20.01% of erosion and sedimentation control areas. It also identified, 2.67% of the Krueng Peusangan watershed is water supply and flood control areas as well as erosion and sedimentation control areas. This research offers important information about areas providing natural environmental services to the central government, local governments, non-governmental organizations and communities to work together to answer the big challenges in managing the Krueng Peusangan watershed

Author Biographies

Ichwana Ramli, 2Department of Agricultural Engineering, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Ichwana is a lecturer at the Agriculture Engineering Department. She earned her Bachelors degree from Civil Engineering at Syiah Kuala University in 1996 and later her Masters degree in Agriculture-Conservation of Land Resources at Syiah Kuala University in 2004. She ever became was as chair of Planning, Arrangement programs and budgeting systems at the faculty of agriculture (2007-2009). In 2010 continued doctoral studies, and She obtained a PhD in Natural and Environment Resources Management at the University of North Sumatra in 2013. In 2015 she became a member of the Internal Control Unit (SPI), Head of the Agricultural Engineering Department (2016-2020) Universitas Syiah Kuala. Rightnow, her position as head of postgraduate quality assurance and secretary of research center for environmental and natural resources Universitas Syiah Kuala. Her areas of expertise is the management of water resources. Her research interests are environmental science, natural resource management, climate change, watershed management.

Nasrul Arahman, Department of Chemical Engineering, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Nasrul Arahman; Born in Tringgadeng, Pidie Jaya in October 1972. Completed primary and secondary education in Trienggadeng and Banda Aceh. Bachelor's degree was pursued in Chemical Engineering Department of Syiah Kuala University with the major about water and wastewater treatment. Magister program was conducted at the Environmental Engineering Department of Institute of Technology Sepuluh Nopember (1999-2002). Thesis research topic is bout application of membrane technology for drinking water treatment process. The research about membrane technology was learned in detail and intensively since pursues of doctoral program at Chemical Engineering Department, Kobe University – Japan (2005-2008). Various polymer materials are selected and modified with organic or inorganic material in order to obtain a high performance of membrane. The fabricated membranes are then applied for processing of water and wastewater, for protein purification, and so on. Up to October of 2017, several research about membrane preparation and its application have been explored in various technique, and the results of the investigation was publish in reputable journal.