Environmental Challenges in South-East Asia

Victor T. King, University of Leeds, UK.

'The book is of great interest to a variety of researchers, offering a clear balance of factual and insightful information. A useful teaching manual for this increasingly important area of Southeast Asian studies.' - Andrea Kilgour, Crossroads

• CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Human-Environment Interactions in South-East Asia, Past and Present HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER TWO Resource Politics in Colonial South-East Asia: A Conceptual Analysis CHAPTER THREE A Dutch Polder in the Sumatran Mountains: Nineteenth-Century Colonial Ideals of the West Sumatran Peasant and Landscape CHAPTER FOUR Lethal Diseases in the History of Borneo: Mortality and the Interplay between Disease Environment and Human Geography CHAPTER FIVE Environmental Adaptations in Southern Sulawesi CHAPTER SIX Changes in Land Use and Economy in Upper Lebong CONTEMPORARY ISSUES CHAPTER SEVEN Environmental Changes and Population Movements: The Iban of Sarawak CHAPTER EIGHT Globalisation and Marine Resource Use in Bali CHAPTER NINE Deforestation of the Northern Sierra Madre CHAPTER TEN Land Use Strategies in the Sierra Madre CHAPTER ELEVEN Land Use Change in Eastern Sabah CHAPTER TWELVE Sustainability of a Fishery in Southern Thailand CHAPTER THIRTEEN Eco-tourism and Environmental Change in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand CHAPTER FOURTEEN Uninvited Guests: Tourists and Environment on Siberut CHAPTER FIFTEEN Epilogue: A South-East Asian Perspective on Environment