Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Change

Indigenous People, Agriculture and Forest Conservation
Herausgeber: Cairns, Malcolm F

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 1090
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 191mm x 60mm
• Gewicht: 1969g
• ISBN-13: 9780415746038
• ISBN-10: 0415746035
• Artikelnr.: 40478943

Autorenporträt

Malcolm Cairns is a consultant and researcher based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He was recently a Research Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Kyoto University, Japan and has extensive experience working across South and Southeast Asia. He is editor of Voices from the Forest (RFF Press, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Jefferson Fox Preface Part 1: Introduction A) Overview Chapters:
The Context in which this Book was Prepared i) A Backwards Glance, Over Our
Shoulders... 1. The View of Swidden Agriculture by the Early Naturalists,
Linnaeus and Wallace Michael R. Dove 2. Shifting Cultivators and the
Landscape: An Essay through Time Harold Brookfield 3. Swiddens and Fallows:
Reflections on the Global and Local Values of 'Slash and Burn' Carol J.
Pierce Colfer, Janis B. Alcorn and Diane Russell 4. Agroforestry Pathways
Revisited: Voices from the Past John Raintree and Katherine Warner 5.
Shifting Agriculture and its Changes in Yunnan Province, China Shaoting Yin
6. Swiddeners at the End of the Frontier: 50 years of Globalization in
Northern Thailand, 1963 - 2013 Peter Kunstadter ii) Looking towards the
Future 7. The Future of Swidden Cultivation Joseph A. Weinstock 8. Shifting
Agriculture and Fallow Management Options: Where do we Stand? P. S.
Ramakrishnan 9. Chena Cultivation in Sri Lanka: Prospects for Agroforestry
Interventions Herath P. M. Gunasena and D. K. N. G. Pushpakumara 10.
Learning from Migratory Agriculture around the World to Improve both
Swidden and Modern Agriculture in Southeast Asia Roland Bunch 11. Learning
to Cope: Evergreen Agriculture Transformations and Insights Exchanged
between Africa and Asia Dennis P. Garrity Part 2: Is Shifting Cultivation
really the 'Bogeyman' of Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss? A) Shifting
Cultivation in an Era of Climate Change 12. Swidden Transitions in an Era
of Climate Change Debate Meine van Noordwijk, Peter A Minang and Kurniatun
Hairiah 13. Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and Transformations of
Shifting Cultivation Landscapes: Are we Throwing out the Baby with the
Bathwater? Kamal Aryal and Dhrupad Choudhury 14. Best REDD Scenario:
Reducing Climate Change in Alliance with Swidden Communities and Indigenous
Peoples in Southeast Asia Janis B. Alcorn and Antoinette G. Royo 15.
Earning Carbon Credits through Fallow Management on lands Affected by
Shifting Cultivation in Northeast India Imtienla Ao 16. Formal and
Indigenous Forest-Management Systems in Central Vietnam: Implications and
Challenges for REDD+ Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak, Tran Nam Tu and Paul Burgers
17. Changing Strategies of Shifting Cultivators to Match a Changing Climate
Prasert Trakansuphakon 18. Fallows and Flooding: A Case Study on the
Potential Contribution of Fallows to Flood Mitigation Peter D. Suson, Rex
Victor O. Cruz, Ruth P. Serquiña, Nathaniel C. Bantayan, Daisy Lou L.
Polestico and Jerson N. Orejudos 19. Dynamics of an Island Ecosystem: Where
to Now? Marjorie V. Cushing Falanruw and Francis Ruegorong B) Is Shifting
Cultivation Friend or Foe to Biodiversity? 20. Second thoughts on Secondary
forests: Can Swidden Cultivation be Compatible with Conservation? Dietrich
Schmidt-Vogt 21. Biodiversity and Swidden Agroecosystems: An Analysis and
some Implications Percy E. Sajise 22. Shifting Cultivators, Curators of
Forests and Conservators of Biodiversity: The Dayak of East Kalimantan,
Indonesia Herwasono Soedjito 23. Fallow Management Practices among the
Tangkhuls of Manipur: Safeguarding Provisioning and Regulatory Services
from Shifting Cultivation Fallows L. Jitendro Singh and Dhrupad Choudhury
24. Some Lesser Known Facts about jhum in Nagaland, Northeast India Temjen
Toy and POU (Project Operations Unit) Members 25. Plant Genetic Diversity
in Farming Systems and Poverty Alleviation in Vietnam's Northern Mountain
Region Tran Duc Vien, Vu Van Liet and Nguyen Thanh Lam 26. Experimenting
with Change: Shifting Beliefs and Rice Varieties in Swidden Communities in
Northern Laos Karen McAllister 27. Is the 'Bogeyman' Real? Shifting
Cultivation and the Forests, Papua New Guinea Bryant Allen and Colin Filer
28. The End of swidden in Bhutan: Implications for Forest Cover and
Biodiversity Steve Siebert, Jill M. Belsky, Sangay Wangchuk and James
Riddering 29. Valuation and Management of Forest Ecosystem Services: A
Skill Well Exercised by the Forest People of Upper Nam Theun, Lao P.D.R
Laurent Chazee 30. Benuaron: The Fruit Gardens of the Orang Rimba Bambang
Hariyadi and Dedi Harmoko 31. Ancestral Domain and National Park Potection:
Mutually Supportive Paradigms? A Case Study of the Mt.Kitanglad Range
Nature Park, Bukidnon, Philippines Malcolm Cairns 32. Shifting Cultivation
and Wildlife Sanctuaries in Ancestral Domains: Friend or Foe to
Biodiversity Conservation? Butch Dagondon and Easterluna Canoy 33. Missing
Link of Forest Regeneration: Dwindling Shifting Cultivation from North
Western Ghats Archana Godbole, VJayant Sarnaik and Yogita Gokhale 34.
Fallows and Forest Restoration Kuswata Kartawinata and Rochadi Abdulhadi
35. Characteristics and Roles of Fallow and Riparian Forests in a
Mountainous Region of Northern Laos Isao Hirota 36. A Plant Resources
Survey and Festival: A Community-based Approach to Biodiversity Education
and Conservation Venacio A. Acebedo, Lorna F. Acebedo and David M. Bates
37. Developing Information Systems on Indigenous Plant Resources in the
Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines Damasa B. Magcale-Macandog,
Edwin R. Abucay, Lorenza G. Lirio, Lito O. Ayyokad, Joyce N. Paing, Jovita
E. Saguibo, Enesto T. Miguel and Marlyn Tombali Part 3: Specialization for
Markets or Continued Agrodiversity for Subsistence? A) When Swidden Fallows
Become the Domain of Commodity Crops 38. Oil Palm as a Productive Fallow?
Swidden Change and new Opportunities in Smallholder Land Management Ole
Mertz 39. Where are the Swidden Fallows Now? An Overview of Oil Palm and
Dayak Agriculture across Kalimantan, with Case Studies from Sanggau, in
West Kalimantan Lesley Potter 40. Busy People, Idle Land: The Changing
Roles of swidden Fallows in Sarawak Rob Cramb 41. Socially Constructed
Rubber Plantations in the Swidden Landscape of Southwest China Jianchu Xu
and Zhuangfang Yi 42. Rubber Plantation, Swidden Agriculture and Indigenous
Knowledge: A Case Study of a Bulang Village in Xishuangbanna, China
Lun-Yin, Dayuan Xue and Jing Wang 43. Impacts of Smallholder Rubber on
Shifting Cultivation and Rural Livelihoods in Northern Laos Vongpaphane
Manivong and Rob Cramb 44. From Subsistence Swidden Fallows to
Market-oriented Monoculture Production: Drivers of Land Use Change in the
Lao PDR in the Context of Market Globalization Paulo Pasicolan and Thatheva
Saphangthong 45. Transformation of a Landscape: Shifting Cultivation,
Biodiversity, and Tea Janet C. Sturgeon B) Shifting Cultivation on an
Island Frontier: An Examination of the Main Swidden Communities in Palawan,
the Philippines Sub-edited by James Eder 46. Tree Crops, Fallow Management
and Agricultural Settlement in the Cuyonon System of Shifting Cultivation
James Eder 47. Governmental Pressures on Swidden Landscapes in Palawan
Island, the Philippines Wolfram Dressler 48. Rice-related Knowledge,
Farming Strategies and the Transformation of Swiddens Amongst the Batak of
Palawan island, the Philippines Dario Novellino Part 4: Conclusions 49.
Gender Analysis: Shifting Cultivation and Indigenous People Carol J. Pierce
Colfer, Rebakah Daro Minarchek, Malcolm Cairns, Anungla Aier, Amity
Doolittle, Valerie Mashman, Helen Hambly Odame, Michelle Roberts, Kathryn
Robinson and Penny Van Esterik 50. The Bidayuh of Sarawak: Gender,
Spirituality and Swiddens Valerie Mashman and Patricia Nayoi 51. Cartoons
about Shifting Cultivation: Using Humour to Emphasize some Important Points
Malcolm Cairns 52. Afterword A. Terry Rambo