Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific: Between Local and Global

ISBN-13: 9780415404143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 264 str.

Connell/Waddell; John Connell; John Connell

Opis

With the economic growth of the Asia-Pacific region in the twentieth century came environmental change. Using case studies from mainland Southeast Asia and the Island Pacific, this book examines the processes of development and disruption that have led to concern over the use and sustainability of the region's natural resources.

Spis treści

1. Between Global and Local: Contests for Development  2. Volcanic Eruption as Metaphor of Social Integration: A Political Ecological Study of Mount Merapi, Central Java  3. Pacific Island Rural Development: Challenges and Prospects in Kiribati  4. Agricultural Landscapes of Kadavu: Persistence and Change on the Fijian Periphery  5. Tree Crops and the Cultivated Landscapes of the Southwest Pacific  6. Land Reform and the State in Vietnam’s Northwest Mountains  7. Seeds of Discontent: Oil Palm and Changing Production Strategies among Smallholders in Papua New Guinea  8. Holding on to Modernity? Siwai, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea  9. Oil Palm Expansion in Sarawak: Lessons Learned by a Latecomer?  10. Can Indonesia’s Complex Forests Survive Globalisation and Decentralisation? Sanggau District, West Kalimantan  11. Seeing ‘Water Blindness’: Water Control in Agricultural Intensification and Environmental Change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam  12. Rethinking Watershed Science: Lessons from Thailand  13. Civil Society and Interdependencies: Towards a Regional Political Ecology of Mekong Development