M. Firuza

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• PhD
• Professor at University of Malaya

To combat soil erosion in the northern part of Taraba State, Nigeria, farmers are of major importance. Their perceptions vitally influence the levels of support and investment associated with solving problems of soil erosion through adoption of practices that are alternative to those in current use, including approaches focused on soil conservation...

Pond management is one of the most critical aspects in aquaculture production. The mass production of aquatic species need a systematic approach starting from the selection of species and seeds, pond preparation, equipment, water management, feeding schedule, material, maintenance etcetera. This paper focuses on the pond management among small farm...

Mustafa, F.-B. and Bwadi, B.E., 2018. Determination of optimal freshwater prawn farming site locations using GIS and multicriteria evaluation. In: Ashraf, M.A. and Chowdhury, A.J.K. (eds.), Coastal Ecosystem Responses to Human and Climatic Changes throughout Asia. Site suitability selection is an essential condition for attaining maximum use of any...

Prawn farming is one of the most important sectors emerging in the aquaculture industries in Malaysia which requires the consideration of the factors determining its spatial distribution. However, institutions charged with the responsibility of land suitability classification often neglect the incorporation of the local knowledge in their land use...

Flood is becoming the severe hydrologic issue at the Kelantan River basin in Malaysia. The joint distribution analysis among multiple interacting flood characteristics, i.e., flood peak discharge flow, volume, and duration series usually provide a comprehensive understanding of the hydrologic risk assessments through visualizing the multivariate ex...

This study conducts a comprehensive assessment of tidal inundation in the Chattogram City coastal area in Bangladesh, employing a blend of temporal trend analysis and community perception. Parameters explored include water level trends, projected water levels for the next decade, local perceptions of inundation, depth, and duration of inundation, a...

The paper aimed to assess the impact of tidal inundation on the livelihoods of Chattogram City dwellers in Bangladesh. This study employed a mixed-method approach, incorporating various data collection methods, including face-to-face interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. The analysis utilized the weighted average index...

In this article, the researcher focuses on describing the methodology of qualitative research to explore the Environmental Non-governmental Organisations’ (ENGOs’) participation in the Malaysian climate change governance. The question of “What is the present condition of ENGOs’ participation in climate change governance in Malaysia?” will be addres...

A research methodology is an important framework that explains a study’s methods and procedures. The selection of a research method is crucial since it determines the direction of the research results and the reliability of the research findings. Each study begins with a problem that emerges into a research question and is then processed to generat...

Soil is a fundamental resource with its value vital to the world’s ecosystem. Due to the fact that soil is one of the bases of all terrestrial life, humans cannot survive without it. However, soil erosion has jeopardized soil sustainability and affected the environmental quality, leaving a bad impact if these issues were not tackled at an earlier p...

Flood is one of the most common natural disasters having a devastating effect on human beings and their livelihood. Flood susceptibility assessment and zonation are necessary for flood prevention and mitigation strategies. To predict the probability and vulnerability of flood, essential steps are flood susceptibility mapping and zonation. The main...

Gully erosion (GE) is a major environmental problem that causes land degradation worldwide especially in arid and semi-arid regions. A crucial step to reduce and possibly reclaim areas degraded by GE is to predict potential susceptible areas using highly accurate predictive methods. This chapter demonstrates the suitability of a data-driven model (...

Site selection is a major factor in aquaculture activities as it affects both the success and sustainability besides resolving conflicts between different land users and making rational use of the land. The objective of this study centres on the methodical approaches for selecting a suitable site for freshwater aquaculture using the GIS and the AHP...

Coastal communities are directly affected by climate change-induced disasters. Apart from all other disasters, tidal inundation is common in coastal areas. As a damaging phenomenon, it massively influences the socioeconomic sectors in the coastal community. The main objective of this qualitative investigation is to know the adaptation practices of...

As non-state actors, environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) are able to influence the governance process in many cases. Although the ENGOs role in climate change governance has been extensively studied over the last two decades, there is a dearth of research relating to Malaysian ENGOs. Accordingly, this study was conducted to compens...

This study quantified the degree of heavy metal contamination and ecological risk potential from metals concentration in urban lake sediment. The analytical method involved six geochemical indices (enrichment factor (EF), geo-accumulation index (Igeo), contamination factor (CF), degree of pollution, modified degree of contamination, & pollution loa...

Water and soil qualities play significant roles in the farming of giant freshwater prawn. The study evaluated water and soil qualities for giant freshwater prawn farming site suitability by using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Geographic Information System (GIS) in Jelebu, Malaysia. The water quality parameters measured were biochemical oxyge...

The aim of this study is to develop landslide susceptibility models for the northern part of the Bordj Bou Arreridj (BBA) region, Northeast Algeria, to reduce the physical degradation caused by landslides and, to inspect what is required to properly control it. A comprehensive landslide inventory and susceptibility assessment of this region are not...

This study investigated whether there was an effective discriminant function that substantially depicted two-group seasonal variation and predicted metals’ posterior seasonal variability group membership. It also sought to quantify the degree of sediment contamination by both single and multiple metals. The analytical method involved discriminant a...

Researchers often face challenges when collecting primary data, which may influence the degree to which they are able to achieve their research objectives. This chapter is based on the first author’s doctoral data collection experience when studying the impacts of tidal inundation on the Chattogram city coastal dwellers in Bangladesh, and their cop...

This review aims to examine the roles of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in climate change governance. This attempt is to understand the contribution of NGOs to climate change governance at the national level. In order to achieve the objective, a systematic review was guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Ana...

Climate change issues are posing a threat to the world’s sustainable development. Geographically, Malaysia is located in a highly vulnerable region to the impacts of climate change, Southeast Asia. Thus, climate change governance based on stakeholder participation is needed to tackle climate change effectively. As non-state stakeholders, environmen...

Udang air tawar Macrobrachium rosenbergii yang dikenali sebagai "udang galah" adalah salah satu makanan yang sangat popular di seluruh dunia, yang merupakan spesis asli dari Malaysia. Ia dianggap sebagai spesis yang popular dengan mempunyai keutamaan yang besar dalam aspek akuakultur air tawar berdasarkan kadar tumbesaran yang pesat, saiz yang lebi...

This study assessed gully erosion susceptibility in Southern Gombe State, Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to: (1) prepare gully inventory of Southern Gombe State, (2) apply the Analytical Hierarchy Process to assess the contribution of gully erosion predisposing factors, and (3) produce a gully erosion susceptibility map of Southern Gombe...

Environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) are considered key players for engendering good climate change governance to address both climate change and sustainable development. The participation of ENGOs in climate change governance occurs in a four-phase policy cycle. They include (1) identification of policy options, (2) policy formulati...

Floods are becoming the most severe and challenging hydrologic issue at the Kelantan River basin in Malaysia. Flood episodes are usually thoroughly characterized by flood peak discharge flow, volume and duration series. This study incorporated the copula-based methodology in deriving the joint distribution analysis of the annual flood characteristi...

Giant freshwater prawn farming in Malaysia began in earnest at the early 1990s with the international demand and the support by the government aquaculture development programs (Banu, Siraj, Christianus, Ikhsan, & Rajaee, 2015). Today prawn farming and other aquaculture activities contributed about 11.5 % of agricultural productivity in the annual n...

A study to Estimate the concentration of some heavy metals: Ni, Cd, Cu, Pb and Cr in the soils around Maiganga coal mine and it environ was conducted, using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer. A total of 42 composite soil samples each was taken after every 120meters at the study area, about 42 soil samples were collected which comprises of ; 9 soi...

Firuza Begham Mustafa & Nather Khan Ibrahim. 2009. Water Quality in Tiger Prawn Aquaculture Ponds at Bagan Tengkorak, Selangor, Malaysia. Sixth International Symposium on Southeast Asian Water Environment, Bandung, Indonesia. hlm 48-55

Firuza Begham Mustafa, Nather Khan Ibrahim,Maimon Abdullah, Zuriati Zakaria & Jamaluddin Jahi. 2008. Social impacts of shrimp aquaculture at Bagan Tengkorak, Kuala Selangor, Malaysia- a case study. The Proceeding of International Conference on Human Habitat and Environment, Bangi. Pp314-320.

Firuza Begham Mustafa & Nather Khan Ibrahim. 2009. Water Quality at Adult and Juvenile Stages of Tiger Prawn Ponds in Selangor, Malaysia. Prosiding International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Environmental Science and Engineering. Aligarh Muslim University Delhi, India.

The multivariate approach of flood characteristics such as flood peak flow (P), volume (V), and duration (D) is much beneficial in recognizing the critical behaviour of flood episodes at a river basin scale. The incorporation of 2-dimensional copulas for establishing bivariate flood dependency frequently appears, but it could be more comprehensive...

Geografi pertanian ialah ilmu yang menghuraikan kepelbagaian variasi ruang aktiviti pertanian di permukaan bumi dan menjelaskan faktor yang menentukan kedudukan tersebut. Terdapat berbagai faktor yang mendorong dan mempengaruhi letakan sesuatu aktiviti pertanian seperti ketinggian, kecuraman, suhu, cahaya, kerpasan dan jenis tanih. Buku ini menghur...

The joint distribution analysis of multidimensional flood characteristics i.e., flood peak flow, volume and duration, often facilitates a comprehensive understanding in the hydrologic risk assessments. Copula-based methodology are frequently incorporated via parametric approach to model dependence structure of parametric based univariate marginal d...

Flood is becoming an intensive hydro-climatic issue at the Kelantan River basin in Malaysia. Univariate frequency analysis would be unreliable due to multidimensional behaviour of flood, which often demands multivariate flow exceedance probabilities. The joint distribution analysis of multiple interacting flood characteristics, i.e. flood peak, vol...

Floods are becoming the most challenging hydrologic issue in the Kelantan River basin in Malaysia. All three flood characteristics i.e. peak flow, flood volume and flood duration are important when formulating actions and measures to manage flood risk. Therefore, estimating the multivariate designs and their associated return periods is an essentia...

Soil is the basis of production in agriculture activities. The combination of intensive farming activities, improper farming practices, rainfall regimes, and topography conditions that taken place in agricultural land lead to the soil erosion problem. Soil erosion is the major constraint to agriculture that affects the yield production and degraded...

Water resources operational planning, managements or either flood defence infrastructure designs often demand the estimations of flow exceedance probability for visualizing the risk of flood episodes. Numerous literature often incorporated copulas for the development of bivariate joint dependence structure among the flood characteristics, flood pea...

Water resources operational planning, managements or either flood defence infrastructure designs often demand the estimations of flow exceedance probability for visualizing the risk of flood episodes. Numerous literature often incorporated copulas for the development of bivariate joint dependence structure among the flood characteristics, flood pea...

IGU Annual Commission Conference - 7-14 Aug 2020

Basin perspective hydrology and hydraulic water-related queries often demanding an accurate estimation of flood exceedance probabilities or return periods for assessing hydrologic risk. The research on the advancements of flood probability modelling contributed to reduction of flood risk, damage property and human life losses associated with the oc...

The incidence of gully erosion in Gombe state is a vexed issue. It is a common occurrence and effects have reached alarming proportions and have directly affected the socioeconomic life of the people. Despite the growing concern, the evaluations of permanent gullies in the State are scarce. Assessments of contributing factors in the area have focus...

Comprehensive understanding of the flood risk assessments via frequency analysis often demands multivariate designs under the different notations of return periods. Flood is a tri-variate random consequence, which often pointing the unreliability of univariate return period and demands for the joint dependency construction by accounting its multipl...

The growth and development of mangrove forests in Malaysia has an interesting and unique history of its own. Very little however has been written on mangrove forests in this country. The mangrove forests represents a growth community that thrives in colonies along the edge of the coastal areas in the country. This article seeks to provide a discuss...

Akuakultur udang harimau merupakan sebuah buku holistik yang merangkumi bidang geografi, biologi dan pengurusan alam sekitar.

Perubahan guna tanah sesuatu kawasan yang menuntut eksploitasi terhadap alam sekitar telah menimbulkan pelbagai isu berkaitan dengan guna tanah seperti kawasan hutan telah digantikan dengan kawasan perbandaran dan kawasan pertanian. Tujuan kajian ini dijalankan adalah untuk mengkaji pola perubahan guna tanah di Negeri Sembilan daripada perspektif r...

Penggunaan nama Orang Asli adalah merujuk kepada keadaan-keadaan yang tertentu sahaja dan istilah aborigines merujuk hanya kepada Orang Asli di Malaysia di mana ia merupakan kaum minoriti (Iskandar, 1976). Jumlah populasi Orang Asli di Semenanjung Malaysia dianggarkan kira-kira 150,000 dan Negeri Pahang mencatatkan paling ramai penduduk pribumi yan...

Finding potential sites for resilient prawn production in the tropical environment that also prevents wastage of natural resources is not an easy task. The purpose of this study is to evaluate water quality suitability for prawn farming in Negeri Sembilan of Peninsular Malaysia based on Geographic Information System (GIS). To achieve this goal, num...

A study to assess the concentration of Copper (Cu) in filtered and unfiltered water from the coal mine and residential areas of maiganga coal mining environment was conducted, using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer. The water samples were collected from the coalmine and residential areas respectively, the result of this analysis reveals the pres...

Abstract Soil erosion is of great concern in the agricultural fields in Nigeria. It threatened agricultural lands and constrained farmers from achieving an acceptable level of food security. Erosion assumes disastrous proportions with increased intensification of agricultural activities on erosion prone areas such as hillslopes and flooded plains....

The pattern of Muslim population in India reflects the contribution of a number of factors: proselytization, migration, and natural growth rate. The partition of the country in 1947 made its own important contribution, effecting profound changes in the distribution pattern of Muslims that resulted in the migration of about 10 million people to and...

Longitudinal water quality trends were assessed in the Tengi River system, Selangor State, Malaysia, as the water moved from a peat swamp forest, through different agricultural land uses, and finally through an urban area to the Straits of Malacca. Water draining from the peat swamp forest was dark in color due to its organic content and low in dis...

The Sedili Kecil is one of the very few river watersheds in Peninsular Malaysia that remains entirely forested from its source to estuary. Nevertheless pressure from large scale development around the area threatens the existence of this pristine tropical wetland forest. Although, sparsely populated, the rivers and streams were used for many purpos...

Many assessments of water pollution in aquatic ecosystem have focused mainly on physical and chemical characteristics. However, until recently, biological aspects have been given little attention. Although physical and chemical methods of assessing water pollution are relatively simple to interpret, biological assessments have many strong merits. T...

Waste Transfer stations are the integral part of municipal solid waste management. They essentially function as transit waste collection centres enroute to the landfill facility. The Shah Alam solid waste transfer station (SATS) is the first such transfer station to be established at the industrial zone in the city of Shah Alam. The SATS will be de...

Firuza B. M. 2010. Shrimp Farming In Peninsular Malaysia: A Study In Globalization And Marginalization. International Geography Union on Globalization,Marginalization and Regional and Local Response - C08-47, Austria & Switzerland.

Spatial and temporal variations in silica concentration were determined at various rivers and tributaries in the Linggi River Basin, which has been highly polluted due to urban, industrial and agricultural wastes. The silica content measured as reactive silicate in the whole Linggi River Basin ranged from 1.4 to 26.3 mg/L. A clear seasonal variatio...

Nather Khan Ibrahim & Firuza Begham Mustafa. Environmental Impact Assessment for Tune Hotel Project in Langkawi Island of Malaysia: A Case Study. International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Environmental Science and Engineering.