Environmental Challenges in South-East Asia

by King,Victor T.

• ISBN13: 9780700706150
• ISBN10: 0700706151
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-23
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

This volume discusses environmental change, natural resource exploitation and the prospect for ecological sustainability in Southeast Asia.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Human-Environment Interactions in South-East Asia, Past and Present	p. 1
Resource Politics in Colonial South-East Asia: A Conceptual Analysis	p. 27
A Dutch Polder in the Sumatran Mountains: Nineteenth-Century Colonial Ideals of the West Sumatran Peasant and Landscape	p. 53
Lethal Diseases in the History of Borneo: Mortality and the Interplay between Disease Environment and Human Geography	p. 69
Environmental Adaptations in Southern Sulawesi	p. 95
Changes in Land Use and Economy in Upper Lebong	p. 121
Environmental Changes and Population Movements: The Iban of Sarawak	p. 137
Globalisation and Marine Resource Use in Bali	p. 169
Deforestation of the Northern Sierra Madre	p. 193
Land Use Strategies in the Sierra Madre	p. 231
Land Use Change in Eastern Sabah	p. 259
Sustainability of a Fishery in Southern Thailand	p. 283
Eco-tourism and Environmental Change in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand	p. 305
Uninvited Guests: Tourists and Environment on Siberut	p. 317
Epilogue: A South-East Asian Perspective on Environment	p. 342
References	p. 350
Index	p. 385
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