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Author : P. P. M. Burgers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Rainforest and Rural Economy in Sarawak written by P. P. M. Burgers and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm Cairns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113652228X
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Forest written by Malcolm Cairns and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook of locally based agricultural practices 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. Environmentalists 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, a growing body of evidence indicates 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. Moreover, these external solutions often fail to recognize the extent to which an agricultural system supports a way of life along with a society's food needs. They do not recognize the degree to which the sustainability of a culture is intimately associated with the sustainability and continuity of its agricultural system. Unprecedented in ambition and scope, Voices from the Forest focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers. More than 100 scholars from 19 countries--including agricultural economists, ecologists, and anthropologists--collaborated in the analysis of different fallow management typologies, working in conjunction with hundreds of indigenous farmers of different cultures and a broad range of climates, crops, and soil conditions. By sharing this knowledge--and combining it with new scientific and technical advances--the authors hope to make indigenous practices and experience more widely accessible and better understood, not only by researchers and development practitioners, but by other communities of farmers around the world.
Author : Eveline Ferretti
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501719130
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Cutting Across the Lands written by Eveline Ferretti and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated bibliography focused on Borneo and the Southern Philippines. With over 1,000 citations, this reference work identifies patterns of forestland transformation common to the areas under consideration. A subject index is included.
Author : Paul Burgers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Commercialisation and Forest Use the Rural Economy of Shifting Cultivators written by Paul Burgers and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ryoji Soda
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
ISBN 13 : 9781920901967
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)
Download or read book People on the Move written by Ryoji Soda and published by Trans Pacific Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on participant observation and interviews in a village in Sarawak, Ryoji Soda examines outward migration from the village, the migrants' living strategies in urban areas, their frequent moves between rural and urban areas, and kinship relations between rural and urban residents. Focusing on the Iban of Sarawak, one of the major ethnic groups, the study suggests that their movement should be comprehended as a part of their endeavors to expand their living space. With research that spans a decade, People on the Move presents a fresh ethnographic perspective on human mobility, rural-urban interactions, development policy, and family relations.
Author : M. N. B. Nair
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Management of Non-wood Forest Products written by M. N. B. Nair and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Dove
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030015321X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Banana Tree at the Gate written by Michael Dove and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Hikayat Banjar," a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate." Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous peoples of Borneo and the world system, standing on its head the prevailing view of resource-poor and economically marginal tropical forest dwellers. In analyzing production and trade in forest products, pepper, and especially natural rubber, Dove shows that the involvement of Borneo's native peoples in commodity production for global markets is ancient and highly successful. This success is based on the development of a "dual" household economy, with distinct subsistence- and market-oriented sectors, which has historically made these "smallholders" extremely competitive with the large-scale, heavily capitalized, state-supported plantation sector. Dove sheds new light on the nature of smallholders and in particular their relationship with the global economic system. He demonstrates that processes of globalization began millennia ago and that they have been more diverse and less teleological than often thought. His analysis replaces the image of the isolated tropical forest community that needs to be helped into the global system with the reality of communities that have been so successful and competitive that they have had to fight political elites to keep from being forced out. The ubiquitous but historically inaccurate emphasis on isolation and resource-poverty disguises that the overweening characteristic of these communities is their political marginality and that their greatest want is not to be uplifted economically but to be empowered politically.
Author : Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Deforesting Malaysia written by Jomo Kwame Sundaram and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of deforestation in Malaysia's three regions examines the different factors that shape them, the institutions and policies that determine forestry development, the ecological impact of deforestation, and sustainability. Much Malaysian deforestation reflects agricultural expansion or rural development and poverty alleviation projects, while logging became more significant after independence. Sabah and Sarawak have relied increasingly on the exploitation of their timber resources, and private greed and corruption at state level have overridden federal policies of sustainable management. The authors take a hard look at the economic and political forces in the international tropical timber trade. An ecologically rapacious emphasis on growth, coupled with politically powerful distribution coalitions, give little chance for policy reforms and no hope of radical change. The only pressure that has the slightest effect, it seems, is international criticism.
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Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Sarawak Museum Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eberhard F Bruenig
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1780641400
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Conservation and Management of Tropical Rainforests, 2nd Edition written by Eberhard F Bruenig and published by CABI. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Conservation and Management of Tropical Rainforests applies the large body of knowledge, experience and tradition available to those who study tropical rainforests. Revised and updated in light of developments in science, technology, economics, politics, etc. and their effects on tropical forests, it describes the principles of integrated conservation and management that lead to sustainability, identifying the unifying phenomena that regulate the processes within the rainforest and that are fundamental to the ecosystem viability. Features of the natural forest and the socio-cultural ecosystems which can be mimicked in the design of self-sustaining forests are also discussed. A holistic approach to the management and conservation of rainforests is developed throughout the book. The focus on South-East Asian forestry will be widened to include Africa and Latin America. Recent controversial issues such as biofuels and carbon credits with respect to tropical forests and their inhabitants will be discussed. This book is a substantial contribution to the literature, it is a valuable resource for all those concerned with rainforests.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Abstracts on Tropical Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Alexander Senada
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Role of Forestry in Socio-economic Development of Rural Populations in Sarawak written by David Alexander Senada and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Hirsch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134690452
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia written by Philip Hirsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environment in Southeast Asia is now a major issue of topical concern. First book to give analysis in depth of the political processes involved in environmental disputes. Provides a good selection of case studies in the region. Questions the assumption that the middle classes are in the vanguard of the environmental movement.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sarawak Development Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. G. Grijpstra
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Common Efforts in the Development of Rural Sarawak, Malaysia written by B. G. Grijpstra and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Borneo Research Council (Williamsburg, Va.). Conference
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Borneo 2000: Environment, conservation, and land written by Borneo Research Council (Williamsburg, Va.). Conference and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hamid Bugo
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Economic Development of Sarawak written by Hamid Bugo and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
