Community, commons, and natural resource management in Asia / edited by Haruka Yanagisawa.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Yanagisawa, Haruka, 1944-2015, contributor, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural resources, Communal--Asia--Management.

Natural resources, Communal.

Community-based conservation--Asia.

Community-based conservation.

Conservation of natural resources--Asia--Citizen participation.

Conservation of natural resources.

Natural resources--Management.

Natural resources--Law and legislation.

Political participation.

Management.

Asia.

Physical Description:

xii, 257 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Deforestation and agricultural productivity in Chosŏn, Korea in the 18th and 19th centuries / Wooyoun Lee

Communal land formation and local society in rural Thailand / Shinichi Shigetomi

Village communities and "publicness" in Northern India, self-governance of common property resources and the environment, 1803-2008 / Minoty Chakravarty-Kaul

Historical changes in communal fisheries in Japan / Yutaka Suga

South Indian village common land in transition, including a comparison with the Japanese case / Haruka Yanagisawa

Changing policies toward commond land in modern Thailand / Atsushi Kitahara

Challenges from "Buddhist environmentalism", environmental policies and pastoralists in a national park in Bhutan / Mari Miyamoto.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-247) and index.

ISBN:

9789971698539

9971698536

OCLC:

897511751