Description |
1 online resource (vi, 402 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Part I. Introduction -- Problems of shifting cultivation and economic development in Northern Thailand / Peter Kunstadter and E.C. Chapman -- The environment of Northern Thailand / Tem Smitinand, Sanga Sabhasri and Peter Kunstadter -- Part II. Institutional constraints on forest farming -- Introduction / Peter Kunstadter -- Legal aspects of land occupation and development / Sophon Ratanakhon -- Forest policy in Northern Thailand / Thiem Komkris -- Part III. Subsistence swidden systems -- Introduction ; Subsistence agricultural economies of Lua' and Karen hill farmers, Mae Sariang District, Northwestern Thailand / Peter Kunstadter -- Soil fertility aspects of the Lua' Forest fallow system of shifting cultivation / Paul J. Zinke, Sanga Sabhasri and Peter Kundstadter -- Effects of forest fallow cultivation on forest production and soil / Sanga Sabhasri -- Declining production among sedentary swidden cultivators: the case of the Pwo Karen / Peter Hinton -- Part IV. Commercially oriented forest farming systems -- Introduction / Peter Kunstadter -- Opium culture in Northern Thailand: social and ecological dilemmas / Sanga Sabhasri -- Ecological relationships in a Hmong (Meo) economy / F.G.B. Keen -- Shifting cultivation and economic development in the lowlands of Northern Thailand / E.C. Chapman -- Soil fertility problems in development of annual cropping on swiddened lowland terrain in Northern Thailand / J.L. Charley and J.W. McGarity -- The fermented tea (Miang) economy of Northern Thailand / F.G.B. Keen -- Swidden cultivation in Southeast Asia: historical, ecological, and economic perspectives / Karl J. Pelzer -- Part V. Conclusion -- Alternatives for the development of upland areas / Peter Kunstadter |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-392) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Shifting cultivation -- Thailand, Northern
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Hill farming -- Thailand, Northern
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Land use, Rural -- Thailand, Northern
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Rural development -- Thailand, Northern
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Shifting cultivation -- Thailand
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Hill farming -- Thailand
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Land use, Rural -- Thailand
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Rural development -- Thailand
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Hill farming
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Land use, Rural
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Rural development
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Shifting cultivation
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Agrarische ontwikkeling.
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Landgebruik.
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Wisselbouw.
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Thailand
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Northern Thailand
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Kunstadter, Peter
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Chapman, E. C
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Sanga Sabhasri
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Mahāwitthayālai Chīang Mai.
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ISBN |
9780824881979 |
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0824881974 |
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