Environmental Challenges in South-East Asia
Victor T. King
Routledge
This volume&nbsp;discusses environmental change, natural resource exploitation and the prospect for ecological sustainability in Southeast Asia. The contributors&nbsp;including&nbsp;sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, economists, political economists and historians, presents the findings of recent archival and field research mainly from ongoing programs of team research based in European universities and institutes.&nbsp;<br> Among the themes discussed are European and indigenous perceptions of the environment; historical processes of environmental change; the politics of resource use; ecotourism and development; deforestation and smallholding land-use strategies; migration and environmental degradation; disease environment and human geography; demography, sustainability and resource exploitation.