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The Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia
Author: Ben Wallace
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-11-14
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1134218648
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' - a multi-year forestry and agriculture research project in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and the government to better understand the processes of deforestation and initiate a strategy by which stressed upland ecosystems can be returned to productive stability. This comparative study aims quite simply, to help the farmers of the island to help themselves. Ben Wallace the director of the study investigates the issues surrounding the project, how the initiatives have been implemented, and the future for the island as the population growth rates continue to expand and more land is increasingly given over to agriculture.
The Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia
Author: Ben Wallace
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-11-14
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 1134218656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' on Luzon in the Philippines.
The Village Concept in the Transformation of Rural Southeast Asia
Author: Mason C. Hoadley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780700703500
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using examples from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, the book considers what scholarship has defined as a village within the rapid changes taking place in rural Southeast Asia.
Environmental Change in South Asia
Author: Anup Saikia
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-11-11
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 303047660X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies on South Asia are an emerging interdisciplinary field, this volume expands on the currently limited literature available on South Asia and focuses on the regions environmental, climatic and natural resource base by looking at case studies from Nepal, India and Bangladesh. The book contains twelve chapters which deal with various environmental challenges, such as the impacts of climate change on floods and droughts, population structure and regeneration dynamics of dominant treeline species, environmental changes and rural livelihoods, and change analysis and impacts of hard coastal structures. Apart from the various thematic areas and diversity of geographical coverage, most of the studies also demonstrate the application of geospatial techniques for the collection of environmental data, and the use of GIS for spatial analysis of the data. The specific application of geospatial techniques and methods includes NDVI, NDWI, NDBI, SMI, SPOT-VGT NDVI, environmental flow, distribution and trend estimation of tropospheric formaldehyde, vegetation sensitivity to climate change, variability of tropospheric ozone, and geo-environmental problems. The contributors are seasoned researchers currently engaged in academic and research activities, and work at universities in USA, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Japan.
Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge
Author: Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2014-03-31
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 383941959X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Southeast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation as well as global climate change increasingly threaten people's livelihoods. Environmentally-based uncertainties foster a high level of knowledge uncertainty. This poses a constantly growing threat to agricultural production. Vulnerable communities with a low degree of resilience are most severely affected. But local communities have abilities to innovate and develop locally embedded coping strategies. The contributors of this volume are most interested in environmental change that fosters knowledge uncertainties. Regions discussed include the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, Moluccas, Central Kalimantan, West Sumatra and South Sulawesi in Indonesia and Tangail Region in Bangladesh.
Environmental Change in South-East Asia
Author: Raymond Bryant
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-03
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1134794118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests. Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive economic and ecological approaches, the authors stress that neither the quest for sustainable development nor the process of environmental change itself can be understood without reference to political processes.
Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Jonathan Rigg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1135097232
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Southeast Asia: A Region in Transition, first published in 1991, is a contemporary human geography of the ‘market’ economies of the region usually defined by membership of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Organized thematically, the chapters deal with the environment and development, plural societies, agrarian change and urbanization. This thematic approach provides a comprehensive picture of the ASEAN countries and gives a depth of coverage often lacking in other regional geographies. With a detailed introduction dealing with the physical environment and history of the region, this work will be of great value to students studying the human geography of Southeast Asia, as well as those with a more general interest in the issues and developments affecting the ASEAN region.
Environments of the Poor in Southeast Asia, East Asia and the Pacific
Author: Aris Ananta
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Published: 2014-11-11
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9814519758
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides examples of possible triple-win solutions for simultaneously reducing poverty, raising the quality of the environment, and adapting to climate change. The book provides empirical evidence and observations from sixteen case studies in Southeast and East Asia, and from the Pacific. It argues that a spatial approach focussing on the environments in which the poor and vulnerable live, would trigger changes for development policies and implementation that better balance environmental and social concerns. In line with the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda, emphasizing integrated development approaches for the slum poor, the upland poor, the dryland poor, the coastal poor, and the flood-affected wetland poor, would also bring the environment and poverty agenda closer. The book emerged from a cooperation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in partnership with experts from research institutes and think-tanks in the Asian region.
Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power
Author: Liana Chua
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0415683459
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the last half-century, Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable, far-reaching changes that have consequences not only for large-scale institutions and processes, but also for everyday life. This book focuses on the topic of power in relation to these transformations, and looks at its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms. Consisting of empirically rich case studies, the book works from the ground up, seeking to capture Southeast Asians' own perspectives, conceptualizations and experiences of power.
