Author: British North Borneo Chartered CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sabah
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Handbook of the State of North Borneo
Author: British North Borneo Chartered CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sabah
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
British North Borneo
Author: Owen RutterThe Statesman's Year Book
Author: The Statesman's Year-book
Author: Frederick MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1856
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: J. Scott-KeltiePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 023027031X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1365
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo
Author: Henry Ling RothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borneo
Languages : ms
Pages : 564
Book Description
Handbook of British North Borneo
Author: British North Borneo Chartered CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The Statesman's Yearbook
Author: Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia
Author: Amity A. DoolittlePublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295801166
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In 1990, shortly after a Malaysian politician announced that the boundaries of Kinabalu Park, a primary tourist destination, were to be expanded to include the species-rich tropical forest known locally as Bukit Hempuen, most of the area was burned to the ground, allegedly by local people. What would motivate the people who had for generations hunted and gathered forest products there to act so destructively? In this volume, Amity Doolittle illuminates this and other contemporary land-use issues by examining how resources were used historically in Sabah from 1881 to 1996 and what customary rights of access to land and resources were enjoyed by local people. Drawing upon anthropology, political science, environmental history, and political ecology, she looks at how control over and access to resources have been defined, negotiated, and contested by colonial state agents, the postcolonial Malaysian state, and local people. The study is grounded in methodological and theoretical advances in the field of political ecology, merging the traditions of human ecology and political economy and looking at environmental conflicts in terms of the particulars of place, culture, and history. Doolittle assumes that environmental problems have causes that are complex and changing and that solutions must be specific to time and place. Using a political ecology perspective allows her to focus on the root causes of environmental degradation, exposing the underlying political, economic, and social forces at work. The challenge in the twenty-first century, she writes, is to move beyond blaming local people for resource degradation and to find ways to achieve equitable access to natural resources and more sustainable land use practices. Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia has great relevance to development studies, political ecology, environmental planning, anthropology, and legal studies in natural resource management.