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Forest guardians, forest destroyers : the politics of environmental knowledge in northern Thailand / Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forsyth, Tim.
- Series:
- Culture, place, and nature.
- Culture, place, and nature
- Studies in anthropology and environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forest management--Thailand.
- Forest management.
- Forests and forestry--Economic aspects--Thailand.
- Forests and forestry.
- Forest ecology--Thailand.
- Forest ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 302 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examining the environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, this title analyzes deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, and biodiversity in order to challenge popularly held notions of environmental crisis. It argues that such crises have been used to support political objectives of state expansion and control in the uplands.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword, by K. Sivaramakrishnan
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Environmental Crisis and the Crisis of Knowledge
- 2. Mountains, Rivers, and Regulated Forests
- 3. Upland People
- 4. Forests and Water
- 5 Water Demand
- 6. Erosion
- 7. Agrochemicals
- 8. Biodiversi
- 9. Rethinking Environmental Knowledge
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295800257
- 0295800259
- OCLC:
- 1475171483
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