09 Oct 2006

The Social Ecology of Tropical Forests: Migration, Populations and Frontiers
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Supplied note: "The Social Ecology of Tropical Forests: Migration, Populations and Frontiers. Wil de Jong, Lye Tuck-Po and Ken-ichi Abe (eds). [Hardcover - Aug 30 2006 - ed.]
The 13 chapters in this book from Southeast Asia, the Amazon basin, and Sub-Saharan Africa analyze what happens to the people who migrate to tropical forests, inside the forest or out of the forest, as well as to the people who live in tropical forests and who have to put up with new migrants. In the Southeast Asia overview chapter, Lesley Potter shows how colonial plantation policies affected the lives of migrants who were coerced to join estate crop plantations in the extensive forests one century ago. The discussion extends to a post-colonial political ecology analysis of the same trends. In his chapter, Lennard Andaya looks at pre-modern resource and population policies of small kingdoms and sultanates, in a time when dominion of people was more important than dominion of territory to gain and hold status and power. The fate of migrants and residents, however, is best demonstrated in three case study chapters from Vietnam's Central Highlands, Indonesia's Eastern Kalimantan and Bugees settlers who relocated in large numbers to the harsh peetland environments of Sumatra since the 1970s. Together the chapters tell a compelling story of migrants and what happens to them when they move in large numbers to tropical forests; a story that goes much beyond the linking of migration and deforestation trends mostly emphasized in recent literature. Table of content at [the URL below].
Book summary at http://www.transpacificpress.com/cache/header-4public__0-0.html?cache=no
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URL http://members.optusnet.com.au/tppweb/SocEcoTOC.pdf
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.
Link reported by: Wil de Jong (dejongwil--at--gmail.com)
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