Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific: Between Local and Global Book

List of illustrations     ix
List of contributors     xi
Acknowledgements     xiii
Between global and local: the contest for development   Eric Waddell   John Connell     1
Volcanic eruption as metaphor of social integration: a political ecological study of Mount Merapi, Central Java   Michael R. Dove     16
Pacific island rural development: challenges and prospects in Kiribati   Frank R. Thomas   Kautoa Tonganibeia     38
Agricultural landscapes of Kadavu: persistence and change on the Fijian periphery   Robert Kuhlken     56
Tree crops and the cultivated landscapes of the southwest Pacific   Jean Kennedy   William Clarke     76
Land reform and the state in Vietnam's northwestern mountains   Thomas Sikor     91
Seeds of discontent: oil palm and the changing production strategies among smallholders in Papua New Guinea   George N. Curry   Gina Koczberski     108
Holding on to modernity? Siwai, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea   John Connell     127
Oil palm expansion in Sarawak: lessons learned by a latecomer?   Niels Fold   Tina Svan Hansen     147
Can Indonesia's complex agroforests survive globalisation and decentralisation? Sanggau District, WestKalimantan   Lesley Potter   Simon Badcock     167
Seeing 'water blindness': water control in agricultural intensification and environmental change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam   Fiona Miller     186
Rethinking watershed science: lessons from Thailand   Tim Forsyth     208
Civil society and interdependencies: towards a regional political ecology of Mekong development   Philip Hirsch     226
Index     247