Environmental Change in South-East Asia (Global Environmental Change Series)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
PLATES......Page 9
FIGURES......Page 10
TABLES AND BOXES......Page 11
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 13
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 15
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 17
THE POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE......Page 20
THE POLITICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT......Page 26
OVERVIEW......Page 29
Part I CONTEXT......Page 36
AN EXPANDING INDUSTRY......Page 37
COMMON DANGERS......Page 40
INDONESIA......Page 42
THAILAND......Page 48
CONCLUSION: MANAGING RESISTANCE......Page 56
3 ENVIRONMENTAL NGOS AND DIFFERENT POLITICAL CONTEXTS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA......Page 62
ENVIRONMENTAL NGOS AND THE POLITICAL CONTEXT IN VIETNAM......Page 64
ENVIRONMENTAL NGOS AND THE POLITICAL CONTEXT IN MALAYSIA......Page 66
ENVIRONMENTAL NGOS AND THE POLITICAL CONTEXT IN INDONESIA......Page 73
CONCLUSION......Page 77
4 JAPAN AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA’S ENVIRONMENT......Page 80
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF JAPANESE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT......Page 81
Japan as a consumer of natural resources......Page 82
Japanese overseas economic activity/foreign direct investment (FDI)......Page 88
Japan’s international environmental policy......Page 96
FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN JAPAN—SOUTH-EAST ASIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONS......Page 100
CONCLUSION......Page 105
Part II PROCESS......Page 106
Livelihoods......Page 107
THE INDONESIAN TRANSMIGRATION PROGRAMME......Page 110
THE RESEARCH LOCATION......Page 112
Price of farm products and access to credit......Page 117
Pest, disease and weeds......Page 118
Health......Page 120
The ownership and management of land......Page 121
CONSEQUENCES AND RESPONSES......Page 124
New agricultural strategies......Page 125
Livestock production......Page 127
Wage labour......Page 128
CONCLUSIONS......Page 129
6 THE RACE FOR POWER IN LAOS......Page 133
THE REGIONAL CONTEXT......Page 137
THE NAM THEUN HINBOUN DAM......Page 140
DAM-BUILDING IN LAOS: THE BOOT ERA......Page 142
NORDIC CONNECTIONS......Page 146
THE POLITICS OF ‘APPRAISAL OPTIMISM’......Page 149
LAOS’S DILEMMA......Page 153
INTRODUCTION......Page 155
LAOS: THE FOREST RESOURCE......Page 159
FORESTS AND THE ECONOMIC REFORMS......Page 160
THE MULTIPLE SOURCES OF DEFORESTATION......Page 162
UNDERSTANDING RESOURCE DEGRADATION IN LAOS......Page 166
FOREST POLICY-MAKING ON THE RUN......Page 168
PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE......Page 170
Part III METHOD......Page 173
THE ISSUES......Page 174
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROGRAMMES......Page 177
THE BINTULU RESEARCH PROJECT, SARAWAK......Page 181
FIRE, DROUGHT AND RAIN......Page 183
RAINFALL STATISTICS......Page 184
IMPLICATIONS OF DROUGHT......Page 188
IBAN ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSE IN THE BINTULU DIVISION OF SARAWAK......Page 190
FIRE AND RAIN IN BINTULU......Page 191
OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS......Page 192
PERCEPTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 193
Non-timber forest products......Page 194
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION......Page 196
INTRODUCTION......Page 198
REMOTE SENSING......Page 199
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS......Page 200
Background......Page 201
Method......Page 203
Results......Page 207
Data issues......Page 210
Remote sensing......Page 211
CASE STUDY 2 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND GIS: A BASELINE RESOURCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES…......Page 212
Geographical coverage......Page 214
Pilot study: Thailand......Page 216
Photograph analysis......Page 217
Transfer of information from photograph to digital format......Page 221
The digitization process......Page 222
Research directions......Page 223
Existing data......Page 224
Discussion......Page 226
Limitations......Page 228
Conclusions......Page 229
GENERAL CONCLUSION......Page 230
INTRODUCTION......Page 232
THE TROPICAL FORESTRY ACTION PLAN......Page 233
SHIFTING CULTIVATION......Page 234
CONSULTATION BETWEEN CONSULTANTS......Page 235
THE PAPER AND PULP INDUSTRY......Page 236
LARGE-SCALE HYDRO-POWER DEVELOPMENT......Page 238
CONCLUSION......Page 240
Part IV OPTIONS......Page 242
TOURISM IN NATIONAL PARKS......Page 243
ECOTOURISM: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE......Page 246
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE......Page 248
ECOTOURISM IN INDONESIA......Page 251
Siberut National Park......Page 255
Gunung Leuser National Park......Page 257
Wasur National Park......Page 259
Komodo National Park......Page 260
The Asmat people......Page 261
TOWARDS THE FUTURE......Page 262
THE NEED FOR MARINE CONSERVATION......Page 265
A SEA-NOMADIC LIFESTYLE UNDER PRESSURE......Page 267
FISHING METHODS......Page 269
MARINE COSMOLOGY......Page 271
STEWARDSHIP......Page 272
INTRODUCTION......Page 274
THE IMPORTANCE OF NTFPS......Page 275
THE CHANGING IMPORTANCE OF NTFPs IN BORNEO......Page 277
THE IBAN STUDY COMMUNITIES......Page 283
Impact of change......Page 292
Response to change......Page 296
FUTURE PROSPECTS......Page 299
14 ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BRUNEI’S TEMBURONG RAINFORESTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 306
FORESTRY IN BRUNEI DARUSSALAM......Page 308
CONSERVATION THROUGH RESEARCH?......Page 309
THE RAINFOREST ENVIRONMENT......Page 311
RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND TOURISM......Page 312
PRIORITIES: CONSERVATION OR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?......Page 314
CONCLUSION......Page 315
INTRODUCTION......Page 316
NATIONAL OVERVIEW......Page 318
PHILIPPINE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY-BASED FOREST MANAGEMENT......Page 321
MATI, CLAVERIA......Page 324
Core community......Page 327
Regeneration and indigenous management knowledge......Page 328
Local government units......Page 329
Aggregation......Page 330
CONCLUSION......Page 331
16 CONCLUSION......Page 334
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 348
INDEX......Page 379