Environment, development and change in rural Asia-Pacific between local and global
This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimu...
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New York, NY :
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| Series: | Routledge Pacific Rim geographies ;
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433693506719 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Between global and local: the contest 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 northwestern mountains
- 7 Seeds of discontent: oil palm and the changing production strategies among smallholders in Papua New Guinea8 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 agroforests 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 developmentIndex
