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Article: Methods of utilizing tropical peat land for housing scheme.
- Article from:
- American Journal of Environmental Sciences
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
- Author:
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INTRODUCTION
Cheap marginal land for housing includes soft ground like peaty soils. Peat is found in many countries throughout the world. In the US, peat is found in 42 states, with a total acreage of 30 million hectares. Canada and Russia are the two countries with a large area of peat, 170 and 150 million hectares respectively. The total area of tropical peat swamp forests or tropical peat lands in the world amounts to about 30 million hectares, two thirds of which are in Southeast Asia. In Malaysia, some 3 million hectares (about 8%) of the country land area is covered with peat (Fig. 1). In Indonesia peat covers about 26 million hectare of the country land ...
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