Full Description
This volume discusses environmental change, natural resource exploitation and the prospect for ecological sustainability in Southeast Asia. The contributors including sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, economists, political economists and historians, presents the findings of recent archival and field research mainly from ongoing programmes of team research based in European universities and institutes.
Among the themes discussed are European and indigenous perceptions of the environment; historical processes of environmental change; the politics of resource use; ecotourism and development; deforestation and smallholding land-use strategies; migration and environmental degradation; disease environment and human geography; demography, sustainability and resource exploitation.
Contents
CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Human-Environment Interactions in South-East Asia, Past and Present HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER TWO Resource Politics in Colonial South-East Asia: A Conceptual Analysis CHAPTER THREE A Dutch Polder in the Sumatran Mountains: Nineteenth-Century Colonial Ideals of the West Sumatran Peasant and Landscape CHAPTER FOUR Lethal Diseases in the History of Borneo: Mortality and the Interplay between Disease Environment and Human Geography CHAPTER FIVE Environmental Adaptations in Southern Sulawesi CHAPTER SIX Changes in Land Use and Economy in Upper Lebong CONTEMPORARY ISSUES CHAPTER SEVEN Environmental Changes and Population Movements: The Iban of Sarawak CHAPTER EIGHT Globalisation and Marine Resource Use in Bali CHAPTER NINE Deforestation of the Northern Sierra Madre CHAPTER TEN Land Use Strategies in the Sierra Madre CHAPTER ELEVEN Land Use Change in Eastern Sabah CHAPTER TWELVE Sustainability of a Fishery in Southern Thailand CHAPTER THIRTEEN Eco-tourism and Environmental Change in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand CHAPTER FOURTEEN Uninvited Guests: Tourists and Environment on Siberut CHAPTER FIFTEEN Epilogue: A South-East Asian Perspective on Environment
