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Author Forsyth, Tim, author.

Title Forest guardians, forest destroyers : the politics of environmental knowledge in northern Thailand / Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 302 pages)
Series Culture, place, and nature
Culture, place, and nature.
Contents Foreword, by K. Sivaramakrishnan; Acknowledgments; 1. Environmental Crisis and the Crisis of Knowledge; 2. Mountains, Rivers, and Regulated Forests; 3. Upland People; 4. Forests and Water; 5. Water Demand; 6. Erosion; 7. Agrochemicals; 8. Biodiversity; 9. Rethinking Environmental Knowledge; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Examining the environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, this title analyzes deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, and biodiversity in order to challenge popularly held notions of environmental crisis. It argues that such crises have been used to support political objectives of state expansion and control in the uplands
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-288) and index
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Subject Forest management -- Thailand
Forests and forestry -- Economic aspects -- Thailand
Forest ecology -- Thailand
NATURE -- Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Forest ecology
Forest management
Forests and forestry -- Economic aspects
Forstschutz
Umweltpolitik
Thailand
Thailand
Form Electronic book
Author Walker, Andrew, 1961- author.
LC no. 2021694523
ISBN 9780295800257
0295800259