Environmental Resources Use and Challenges in Contemporary Southeast Asia (eBook, PDF)

Tropical Ecosystems in Transition
Redaktion: Lopez, Mario Ivan; Suryomenggolo, Jafar

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Produktbeschreibung

¿investigates the present environmental conditions in Southeast Asia

offers insights into Southeast Asia's rapidly transforming environment and resources management

promotes trans-disciplinary research that assesses human impact on Southeast Asia's ecosystems

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 255
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789811088810
• Artikelnr.: 52637963

Autorenporträt

Mario Lopez is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Southeast Asia Studies, Kyoto University. He received his PhD from the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies at Kyushu University in 2012. His research interests are on humans, mobility, ageing and sustainability in Southeast Asia. He has published widely on these areas and is also a co-developer of the Humanosphere Potentiality Index, a database developed to address current global potentiality with a focus on tropical countries. In addition, Mario is involved in a Visual Documentary Project in collaboration with the Japan Foundation Asian Centre to stimulate discussion and develop dialogues for new research on Southeast Asian communities.  Jafar Suryomenggolo is an Assistant Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan. He graduated from the University of Indonesia with a degree in Law in 2000 and earned his PhD in Southeast Asian Studies in 2010 fromKyoto University. Jafar's research interests are on working class politics and political changes in contemporary Southeast Asia. He is an author and editor of several articles, book reviews, book chapters and books in these areas. 

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- Introduction.- Part 1: Geospheric Circulations.- Chapter 1 Reconsidering Development Mechanisms of Tropical Agriculture: Focusing on Micro-development in Mainland Southeast Asia.- Chapter 2 Fueling Transformation in the Mekong: Thailand's Trade in Agro-energy.- Part 2: Eco-resources and their Economic Significance.- Chapter 3 Towards Carbon Certificate in Vietnam: Net Ecosystem Production and Basic Income for Local Community.- Chapter 4 Soil Information as a Reforestation Decision-making Tool and Implication for Sustainable Forest Management in the Philippines.- Chapter 5 Indonesian Peatland Functions: Peatland Restoration and Sustainable Peatland Management for the Benefit of Local Community, Case Study in Riau and West Kalimantan Provinces.- Chapter 6 Agribusiness, Overdevelopment and Palm Oil Industrial Restructuring in Malaysia.- Chapter 7 Honey Bees in Modernized Southeast Asia: Adaptation or Extinction?.- Part 3: The Politics of Energy and Resources-use.- Chapter 8 The Rise of Organic Agriculture in the Philippines and its Development.- Chapter 9 Livelihood after the Dams: Experiences of Tributary dams in the Mekong River.- Chapter 10 Livelihoods Activities of Swiddeners Under the Transition of Swidden Agriculture: A Case Study in a Khmu Village, Northern Laos.- Chapter 11 Conclusion: Towards a Research-based Praxis on Southeast Asia's Ecosystems.