Environmental Challenges in South-East AsiaVictor T. King Psychology Press, 1998 - 410 páginas 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. |
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HumanEnvironment Interactions in SouthEast Asia Past and Present | 1 |
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES | 28 |
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES | 135 |
References | 350 |
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