Overview
- Helps readers to understand the contemporary social and environmental issues in Laos
- Elucidates the traditional eco-knowledge of rural people
- Discusses people’s response to social and environmental transition
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research (AAHER)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Tradition and Development
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Human–Nature Interaction
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About this book
This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better or worse, rural development and urbanization have progressed, and people’s livelihoods are about to change significantly. Compared to those of the neighboring countries of mainland Southeast Asia, however, many traditional livelihoods such as region-specific/ethnic-specific livelihood complexes, which combined traditional rice farming with a variety of subsistence activities, have been carried over into the present in Laos. The biggest challenge this book presents is to elucidate livelihood strategies of people who cope successfully with both social and environmental changes and to illustrate how to maintain this rich social and natural environment of Laos in the future. The book includes chapters on social, cultural, and natural concerns and on ethnicity, urbanization, and regional development in Laos. All chapters are based on original data from field surveys. These data will greatly contribute not only to local studies in Laos but also to environmental studies in developing countries.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Integrated Studies of Social and Natural Environmental Transition in Laos
Editors: Satoshi Yokoyama, Kohei Okamoto, Chisato Takenaka, Isao Hirota
Series Title: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54956-7
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54955-0Published: 27 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56227-6Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-54956-7Published: 13 August 2014
Series ISSN: 1879-7180
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7199
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 160
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional and Cultural Studies, Environmental Management