Annual Report

Annual Report
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 466
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105027432157
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Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Annual Report by : Zoological Survey of India

The Political Economy of Productivity

The Political Economy of Productivity
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9780774843485
ISBN-13 : 0774843489
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Synopsis The Political Economy of Productivity by : David H. Feeny

The economic history of Thailand between 1880 and 1975 contrasts sharply with the development experiences of other Third World countries. Between the opening of trade in 1850 and 1941, when war halted economic activity, Thailand became a major exporter of rice in the world market. Although conditions for further growth seemed highly favourable, Thailand's rapid integration into the world economy failed to improve living standards, and rice yields actually declined. In examining the causes of the underdevelopment of Thai agriculture over the last 100 years, Feeny introduces supply and demand models of technical and institutional change to analyse why the rice export boom did not result in more development. This book, much of which is based on primary research in the Thai National Archives, is one of the few quantitative economic histories of a less developed country.

Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers

Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9780295800257
ISBN-13 : 0295800259
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers by : Tim Forsyth

In this far-reaching examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker analyze deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, use of agrochemicals, and biodiversity in order to challenge popularly held notions of environmental crisis. They argue that such crises have been used to support political objectives of state expansion and control in the uplands. They have also been used to justify the alternative directions advocated by an array of NGOs. In official and alternative discourses of economic development, the peoples living in Thailand's hill country are typically cast as either guardians or destroyers of forest resources, often depending on their ethnicity. Political and historical factors have created a simplistic, misleading, and often scientifically inaccurate environmental narrative: Hmong farmers, for example, are thought to exhibit environmentally destructive practices, whereas the Karen are seen as linked to and protective of their ancestral home. Forsyth and Walker reveal a much more complex relationship of hill farmers to the land, to other ethnic groups, and to the state. They conclude that current explanations fail to address the real causes of environmental problems and unnecessarily restrict the livelihoods of local people. The authors' critical assessment of simplistic environmental narratives, as well as their suggestions for finding solutions, will be valuable in international policy discussions about environmental issues in rapidly developing countries. Moreover, their redefinition of northern Thailand's environmental problems, and their analysis of how political influences have reinforced inappropriate policies, demonstrate new ways of analyzing how environmental science and knowledge are important arenas for political control. This book makes valuable contributions to Thai studies and more generally to the fields of environmental science, ecology, geography, anthropology, and political science, as well as to policy making and resource management in the developing world.

Lower Mekong River Basin

Lower Mekong River Basin
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Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015006138443
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Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Lower Mekong River Basin by : United States. Bureau of Reclamation