Environment, development and change in rural Asia-Pacific : : between local and global /

Environment, development and change in rural Asia-Pacific : : between local and global / / edited by John Connell, Eric Waddell.

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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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Superior document:Routledge Pacific Rim geographies (2007)
TeilnehmendeR:
Connell, John, 1946-
Waddell, Eric,
Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2007.
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Routledge Pacific Rim geographies (2007)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 249 pages).
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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.

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