Environmental Challenges in South-East Asia

✍ Scribed by Victor T. King

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 425
• Series: NIAS Man & Nature in Asia Series, No.2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Preface
CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Human-Environment Interactions in South-East Asia, Past and Present
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
CHAPTER TWOResource Politics in Colonial South-East Asia: A ConceptualAnalysis
CHAPTER THREEA Dutch Polder in the Sumatran Mountains: Nineteenth-CenturyColonial Ideals of the West Sumatran Peasant and Landscape
CHAPTER FOURLethal Diseases in the History of Borneo: Mortality and the Interplaybetween Disease Environment and Human Geography
CHAPTER FIVEEnvironmental Adaptations in Southern Sulawesi
CHAPTER SIXChanges in Land Use and Economy in Upper Lebong
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
CHAPTER SEVENEnvironmental Changes and Population Movements: The Iban ofSarawak
CHAPTER EIGHTGlobalisation and Marine Resource Use in Bali
CHAPTER NINEDeforestation of the Northern Sierra Madre
CHAPTER TENLand Use Strategies in the Sierra Madre
CHAPTER ELEVENLand Use Change in Eastern Sabah
CHAPTER TWELVE Sustainability of a Fishery in Southern Thailand
CHAPTER THIRTEENEco-tourism and Environmental Change in Indonesia, Malaysia andThailand
CHAPTER FOURTEENUninvited Guests: Tourists and Environment on Siberut
CHAPTER FIFTEENEpilogue: A South-East Asian Perspective on Environment
References
Index