Environmental Challenges in South-East Asia (NI, King Paperback Paperback..

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Environmental Challenges in South-East AsiaAuthor(s): Victor T. King\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138993495, 978-1138993495\nSynopsis\nThis volumediscusses environmental change, natural resource exploitation and the prospect for ecological sustainability in Southeast Asia. The contributorsincludingsociologists, 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.\nAmong 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 exploita.