| Description |
vi, 424 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde ; 178 |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 178
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| Contents |
Introducing the environmental histories of Indonesia / Peter Boomgaard -- Landscape history : land degradation in the Indonesian region / Harold Brookfield -- Inside out : the colonial displacement of Sumatra's population / Anthony Reid -- Carrying capacity, climatic variation, and the problem of low population growth among Indonesian swidden farmers : evidence from North Sulawesi / David Henley -- Epidemics, droughts, and other uncertainties on Southeast Borneo during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Han Knapen -- Upland cultivation and soil conservation in limestone regions on Java's south coast : three historical case-studies / Jan Willem Nibbering -- Hunting and trapping in the Indonesian archipelago, 1500-1950 / Peter Boomgaard -- Human impact on large mammal populations in Peninsular Malaysia from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century / Jeya Kathirithamby-Wells -- Fishing industry and environment off the north coast of Java, 1850-1900 / Masyhuri -- Sustainability and time perspective in natural resource management : the exploitation of sappan trees in the forests of Sumbawa, Indonesia, 1500-1875 / Bernice de Jong Boers -- A forest product out of control : gutta percha in Indonesia and the wider Malay world, 1845-1915 / Lesley M. Potter -- The ecological sustainability of frontier societies in eastern Sumatra / Freek Colombijn -- The political ecology of pepper in the Hikayat Banjar : the historiography of commodity production in a Bornean kingdom / Michael R. Dove -- Birds of paradise and environmental politics in colonial Indonesia, 1890-1931 / Robert Cribb |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde no:178 |
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Human ecology -- Indonesia -- History.
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Landscape changes -- Indonesia -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Indonesia.
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Indonesia -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065739
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Indonesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80083633 -- Environmental conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005384 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Indonesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80083633 -- Environmental conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005384
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| Author |
Boomgaard, P., 1946-
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Colombijn, Freek, 1961-
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Henley, David, 1963-
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Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)
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| LC no. |
98158007 |
| ISBN |
9067181242 |
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