Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific Between local and global

• Main Authors: Connell, John, Waddell, Eric
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2006; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
• Subjects: Asia Pacific Studies; Black Thai; brookfield; capital; Clonal Rubber; Co-resident Households; Development studies; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; East Asia - Rural conditions; East Asia > Economic conditions > 21st century; ecology; Economic Geography; Environmental Studies; Forestry Land; Geography; harold; Human geography; Interdisciplinary studies; landesque; Landesque Capital; Mount Merapi; Na Pa; Nam Theun; NCR Land; Nonfiction; oil; Oil Palm; Oil Palm Plantations; Oil Palm Production; palm; plantations; political; Political Geography; Politics; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; regional; Regional / International studies; Regional Development; Regional geography; Regional Geography - Human Geography; Regional Political Ecology; Rural Development; Se San River; Social groups, communities and identities; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Solomon Islands; South Tarawa; Suara Merdeka; Sustainable development; Sustainable development > East Asia; The environment; Urban communities; Urban Studies; Volcanic Hazard; Watershed Degradation; Young Men; landesque; Oil Palm Production; capital; regional; palm; Clonal Rubber; political; Na Pa; Watershed Degradation; Solomon Islands; Traditional Fijian Culture; ecology; oil; Suara Merdeka; Young Men; Nam Theun; Se San River; Oil Palm; Oil Palm Area; Oil Palm Cultivation; South Tarawa; harold; brookfield; Mount Merapi; plantations; Volcanic Hazard; Regional Political Ecology; Black Thai; Landesque Capital; Oil Palm Plantations; Yali Falls; Co-resident Households; Forestry Land; NCR Land; Upland Agriculture
• ISBN: 0415512573; 9780415512572; 9780415404143; 0415404142; 9781134138920; 9781134138876; 1134138873; 9780203967843; 0203967844; 113413892X; 1134138911; 9781134138913
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203967843

This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated local resilience amongst communities and led to evolving regional institutions and environment management practices, changing social relationships and producing new forms of stratification. Bringing together case studies from across mainland Southeast Asia and the Island Pacific, an expert team of international contributors reveal how communities at the periphery take charge of their lives, champion the virtues of their own local systems of production and consumption, and engage in the complexities of new structures of development that demand a response to the vacillations of global politics, economy and society. Inherent in this is the recognition that 'development' as we have come to know it is far from over. Each chapter emphasizes the growing recognition that ecological and environmental issues are key to any understanding and analysis of structures of sustainable development. Providing diverse multidisciplinary theoretical and empirical perspectives, Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific makes an important contribution to the revitalization of development studies and as such will be essential reading for scholars in the field, as well as those with an interest in Asia-Pacific studies, economic geography and political economy.