Victor T. King

Environmental Challenges in South-East Asia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume discusses environmental change, natural resource exploitation and the prospect for ecological sustainability in Southeast Asia. The contributors including sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, economists, political economists and historians, presents the findings of recent archival and field research mainly from ongoing programmes of team research based in European universities and institutes. Among the themes discussed are European and indigenous perceptions of the environment; historical processes of environmental change; the politics of resource use; ecotourism and development; deforestation and smallholding land-use strategies; migration and environmental degradation; disease environment and human geography; demography, sustainability and resource exploitation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 848g
• ISBN-13: 9780700706150
• ISBN-10: 0700706151
• Artikelnr.: 21183468

Autorenporträt

Victor T. King, University of Leeds, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Human-Environment Interactions in South-East
Asia, Past and Present HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER TWO Resource
Politics in Colonial South-East Asia: A Conceptual Analysis CHAPTER THREE A
Dutch Polder in the Sumatran Mountains: Nineteenth-Century Colonial Ideals
of the West Sumatran Peasant and Landscape CHAPTER FOUR Lethal Diseases in
the History of Borneo: Mortality and the Interplay between Disease
Environment and Human Geography CHAPTER FIVE Environmental Adaptations in
Southern Sulawesi CHAPTER SIX Changes in Land Use and Economy in Upper
Lebong CONTEMPORARY ISSUES CHAPTER SEVEN Environmental Changes and
Population Movements: The Iban of Sarawak CHAPTER EIGHT Globalisation and
Marine Resource Use in Bali CHAPTER NINE Deforestation of the Northern
Sierra Madre CHAPTER TEN Land Use Strategies in the Sierra Madre CHAPTER
ELEVEN Land Use Change in Eastern Sabah CHAPTER TWELVE Sustainability of a
Fishery in Southern Thailand CHAPTER THIRTEEN Eco-tourism and Environmental
Change in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand CHAPTER FOURTEEN Uninvited
Guests: Tourists and Environment on Siberut CHAPTER FIFTEEN Epilogue: A
South-East Asian Perspective on Environment