Deforestation and agricultural productivity in Chosŏn, Korea in the 18th and 19th centuries / Wooyoun Lee -- Communal land formation and local society in rural Thailand / Shinichi Shigetomi -- Village communities and "publicness" in Northern India, self-governance of common property resources and the environment, 1803-2008 / Minoty Chakravarty-Kaul -- Historical changes in communal fisheries in Japan / Yutaka Suga -- South Indian village common land in transition, including a comparison with the Japanese case / Haruka Yanagisawa -- Changing policies toward commond land in modern Thailand / Atsushi Kitahara -- Challenges from "Buddhist environmentalism", environmental policies and pastoralists in a national park in Bhutan / Mari Miyamoto
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