Environmental Challenges in South-East Asia

Victor T King author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:23rd Jun '98

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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.

'The book is of great interest to a variety of researchers, offering a clear balance of factual and insightful information. A useful teaching manual for this increasingly important area of Southeast Asian studies.' - Andrea Kilgour, Crossroads

ISBN: 9780700706150

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 960g

432 pages