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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Connell, John, 1946-

Waddell, Eric.

Series:

Routledge Pacific Rim geographies ; 6.

Routledge Pacific Rim geographies ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--East Asia.

Sustainable development.

Rural conditions.

Economic conditions.

East Asia--Economic conditions--21st century.

East Asia.

East Asia--Rural conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Contents:

1 Between global and local: the contest for development / Eric Waddell, John Connell 1

2 Volcanic eruption as metaphor of social integration: a political ecological study of Mount Merapi, Central Java / Michael R. Dove 16

3 Pacific island rural development: challenges and prospects in Kiribati / Frank R. Thomas, Kautoa Tonganibeia 38

4 Agricultural landscapes of Kadavu: persistence and change on the Fijian periphery / Robert Kuhlken 56

5 Tree crops and the cultivated landscapes of the southwest Pacific / Jean Kennedy, William Clarke 76

6 Land reform and the state in Vietnam's northwestern mountains / Thomas Sikor 91

7 Seeds of discontent: oil palm and the changing production strategies among smallholders in Papua New Guinea / George N. Curry, Gina Koczberski 108

8 Holding on to modernity? Siwai, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea / John Connell 127

9 Oil palm expansion in Sarawak: lessons learned by a latecomer? / Niels Fold, Tina Svan Hansen 147

10 Can Indonesia's complex agroforests survive globalisation and decentralisation? Sanggau District, West Kalimantan / Lesley Potter, Simon Badcock 167

11 Seeing 'water blindness': water control in agricultural intensification and environmental change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam / Fiona Miller 186

12 Rethinking watershed science: lessons from Thailand / Tim Forsyth 208

13 Civil society and interdependencies: towards a regional political ecology of Mekong development / Philip Hirsch 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415404142

0203967844

OCLC:

70060932