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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Taylor & Francis
2007.
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| Series: | Routledge Pacific Rim geographies (2007)
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Between global and local : the contest for development / Eric Waddell and John Connell
- 2. Volcanic eruption as metaphor of social integration : a political ecological study of Mount Merapi, Central Java / Michael R. Dove
- 3. Pacific island rural development : challenges and prospects in Kiribati / Frank R. Thomas and Kautoa Tonganibeia
- 4. Agricultural landscapes of Kadavu : persistence and change on the Fijian periphery / Robert Kuhlken
- 5. Tree crops and the cultivated landscapes of the southwest Pacific / Jean Kennedy and William Clarke
- 6. Land reform and the state in Vietnam's northwestern mountains / Thomas Sikor
- 7. Seeds of discontent : oil palm and the changing production strategies among smallholders in Papua New Guinea / George N. Curry and Gina Koczberski
- 8. Holding on to modernity? Siwai, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea / John Connell
- 9. Oil palm expansion in Sarawak : lessons learned by a latecomer? / Niels Fold and Tina Svan Hansen
- 10. Can Indonesia's complex agroforests survive globalisation and decentralisation? Sanggau District, West Kalimantan / Lesley Potter and Simon Badcock
- 11. Seeing 'water blindness' : water control in agricultural intensification and environmental change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam / Fiona Miller
- 12. Rethinking watershed science : lessons from Thailand / Tim Forsyth
- 13. Civil society and interdependencies : towards a regional political ecology of Mekong development / Philip Hirsch.
