Abstract

The loss of environmental services to humans results from a continuous change in land use. The purpose of this study is to predict the condition of current and future environmental services through the calculation of habitat quality based on the trend of land use change in Padang City. This research begins with an interpretation of Landsat's temporal image, field surveys, focus group discussions, and an analysis of the impacts of land-use change. To collect land use data is done by image interpretation. A field survey was also conducted to determine the impact of land use change and its solutions. In carrying out this model used the quality and rarity habitat tool released by the Natural Capital Project under the name of the Integrated Valuation Ecosystem Services and Tradeoff (InVEST) parent modeler. The results of this study show the condition of environmental services in the city of Padang at the time of the research conducted in 2017 in the aspect of habitat quality showed significant decline until 2030, the intervention of spatial pattern (RTRW) Padang city able to provide an increase in the area of excellent quality from 51.36% to 52.27%, so the role of RTRW is very significant in maintaining and improving the quality of habitat in Padang City.

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