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 stimu...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Between global and local: the contest for development -- 2 Volcanic eruption as metaphor of social integration: a political ecological study of Mount Merapi, Central Java -- 3 Pacific island rural development: challenges and prospects in Kiribati -- 4 Agricultural landscapes of Kadavu: persistence and change on the Fijian periphery -- 5 Tree crops and the cultivated landscapes of the southwest Pacific -- 6 Land reform and the state in Vietnam's northwestern mountains -- 7 Seeds of discontent: oil palm and the changing production strategies among smallholders in Papua New Guinea -- 8 Holding on to modernity? Siwai, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea -- 9 Oil palm expansion in Sarawak: lessons learned by a latecomer? -- 10 Can Indonesia's complex agroforests survive globalisation and decentralisation? Sanggau District, West Kalimantan -- 11 Seeing 'water blindness': water control in agricultural intensification and environmental change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam -- 12 Rethinking watershed science: lessons from Thailand -- 13 Civil society and interdependencies: towards a regional political ecology of Mekong development -- Index