Author: Tran Duc VienPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Land Use Transition in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia
Montane Mainland Southeast Asia in Transition
Author: Benjavan RerkasemPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Special Issue Land Use Transition in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia
Author: Montane Mainland Southeast Asia in Transition
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
"The symposium on Montane Mainland Southeast Asia in Transition was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on November 12-16, 1995 ... The symposium was organized by the CMU-consortium, a collection of research groups within Chiang Mai University, in collaboration with a number of national institutions ..."--Page [1].
Regional Symposium "Montane Mainland Southeast Asia in Transition", Chiang Mai, Thailand, 12-17 November 1995
Author: Land Use History in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia
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ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Proceedings and findings on land use in Xishuangbanna Botanical Garden, Yunnan Province, China, Luang Prabang Province in Laos, and Chiang Mai Province in Thailand presented at the MMSEA Mobile Workshop.
Institutions, Livelihoods and the Environment
Author: Per RonnåsPublisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 9788787062985
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Despite the recent economic crisis, mainland Southeast Asia continues to experience increasing economic integration of previously isolated rural hinterlands, especially in the upland areas of Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Yunnan in China, where demographic pressures together with the development of infrastructure and increased market-orientation of production combine to bring about significant economic and social change in rural areas. These changes have also led to significant environmental degradation such as deforestation, disturbance of water flows, and depletion of biodiversity resources. These and other related issues are addressed in this volume.
Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Change
Author: Malcolm F. CairnsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317750187
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1405
Book Description
Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics. Typically it involves clearing land (often forest) for the growing of crops for a few years, and then moving on to new sites, leaving the earlier ground fallow to regain its soil fertility. This book brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Some critics have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, the book shows that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and ecology. In contrast, 'scientific' agricultural solutions imposed from outside can be far more damaging to the environment and local communities. The book focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers, particularly in south and south-east Asia, and presents over 50 contributions by scholars from around the world and from various disciplines, including agricultural economics, ecology and anthropology. It is a sequel to the much praised "Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming" (RFF Press, 2007), but all chapters are completely new and there is a greater emphasis on the contemporary challenges of climate change and biodiversity conservation.
Landscapes of Diversity
Author: Jianchu XuPublisher:
ISBN: 9787541618598
Category : Mountain ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
Global Change and Mountain Regions
Author: Uli M. HuberPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 140203508X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
This book gives an overview of the state of research in fields pertaining to the detection, understanding and prediction of global change impacts in mountain regions. More than sixty contributions from paleoclimatology, cryospheric research, hydrology, ecology, and development studies are compiled in this volume, each with an outlook on future research directions. The book will interest meteorologists, geologists, botanists and climatologists.