A history of natural resources in Asia
Subtitle: the wealth of nature
By: edited by Greg Bankoff and Peter Boomgaard.
Contributors: Bankoff, Greg.; Boomgaard, P., 1946-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781403977366
Subjects: Natural resources -- Asia -- Management.; Natural resources -- Asia -- Management -- History.; Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Asia.; Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Asia -- History.; Natural resources -- Asia -- Regional disparities.
Description: Explores why some Asian nations are more prosperous than others through an examination of how their interaction with and utilization of resources has changed over the centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Natural resource management and mismanagement: observations from Southeast Asian agricultural history / David Henley; value: 1: Resources and state; value: The physical transformation of the central Thai region in premodern times / Baas Terwiel; value: Poor little rich islands: metals in Bangka-Belitung and West Kalimantan / Mary Somers Heidhues; value: Making places and making states: agriculture, metallurgy, and the wealth of nature in South India / Kathleen Morrison; value: 2: Forests and development; value: Almost an embarrassment of riches: changing attitudes to the forests in the Spanish Philippines / Greg Bankoff; value: Seeing the timber for the forest: the woods in Japanese capitalism / Gregory Clancey; value: Burma and the politics of Teak: dissecting a resource curse / Raymond Bryant; value: Losing ground: development, natural resources, and the dispossession of Malaysia's Orang Asli / S. Robert Aiken; value: 3: Environments and livelihoods; value: From riches to rags? Rice production and trade in Asia, particularly Indonesia, 1500-1950 / Peter Boomgaard; value: Instructive and nourishing landscapes: natural resources, people, and the state in late imperial China / Francesca Bray; value: Demographic growth, agricultural expansion, and livestock in the lower Chindwin in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Michael Charney; value: "Stealing from the Gods": fisheries and local use of natural resources in Vietnam 1800-2000 / John Kleinen.