Keperluan Membentuk Kerjasama Pakar di dalam Proses Pembangunan Landskap Hutan Rekreasi

Expert is a person who has higher education and skill in certain field. Expert collaboration is required in sustainable development process at all level or stages. However, in Malaysia, expert collaboration was not at encouraging level towards promoting sustainable development process of recreational forest landscape. Objective of this study is to understand stake holder’s (management staff, local resident and user of recreational forest) perception towards necessity to form expert collaboration in recreational forest landscape development process. Several recreational forest sites in Selangor has been selected as a case study. Questionnaire form was use to gain perception from stake holder. Results has revealed that the necessity to form expert collaboration for recreational forest landscape development is must. Lack of expert collaboration is due to neglect to share knowledge and opinion, lack of knowledge about their importance’s as well as no awareness. These phenomenons have resulted to some of man-made landscape elements was not harmonize with existing forest environment. This study concludes that expert collaboration must be implemented for recreational forest landscape development in Malaysia for the sake of their sustainability, to solve weaknesses in creating special design identity and for the sake of sustainable landscape development of recreational forest.