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This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the development and conservation of these landscapes, this book provides history, planning pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing for working alongside the often-opaque planning, design and implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It complicates simplistic notions of development and urbanization frequently reproduced in the Laos–China frontier region. Many of the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent “firsts” in Laos: Laos’s first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked endangered species, its first botanical garden and its first planting plan for a community forest. Most often the agents and accomplices of neoliberal development, the planning and design professions, including landscape architecture, have little dialogue with either the mainstream natural sciences or critical social sciences that form the discourse of projects in Laos and comparable contexts. Covering diverse conceptions and issues of development, including cultural and scientific knowledge exchanges between Laos and China, nature tourism, connectivity and new town planning, this book also features nine planning proposals for Laos generated through this research initiative since the railway's groundbreaking in 2016. Each proposal promotes a wider "landscape approach" to development and deploys landscape architecture’s spatial and ecological acumen to synthesize critical development studies with the planner's capacity, if not naive predilection, to intervene on the ground. Ultimately, this book advocates the cautious engagement of the professionally oriented built-environment disciplines, such as regional planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture, with the landscapes of development institutions and environmental NGOs.

Human geography --- Landscape art & architecture --- Urban & municipal planning --- critical landscape planning --- transdisciplinary design --- Belt and Road Initiative --- landscape ecology --- critical cartography --- China-Laos Railway --- Greater Mekong Subregion --- transnational infrastructure --- development studies --- Golden Triangle --- Open Access

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Yaa baa, « le médicament qui rend fou ». En Thaïlande le surnom de la méthamphétamine sonne comme un avertissement, mais il n’a pas dissuadé des centaines de milliers de Thaïlandais, jeunes pour la plupart, de s’y adonner avec plus ou moins de retenue. « Drogue de travail » ou « drogue de loisir », il s’agit d’un véritable phénomène de société qui n’est pas étranger aux évolutions économiques et aux mutations culturelles qu’a connues le royaume au cours de ces dernières décennies. Ce livre s’efforce de donner des explications à un engouement qui touche également d’autres pays de la région. Il replace la consommation de méthamphétamine dans les logiques du narcotrafic dont les ressorts sont à rechercher aux marges orientales de la Birmanie, en plein cœur du Triangle d’Or.

Methamphetamine abuse --- Youth --- Drug traffic --- Drug use --- Drug dealing --- Drug production, Illicit --- Drug smuggling --- Drug trade, Illicit --- Drug trafficking --- Drugs --- Illicit drug production --- Illicit drug trade --- Narcotic trade --- Narcotic traffic --- Narcotic trafficking --- Smuggling of drugs --- Smuggling of narcotics --- Traffic, Drug --- Trafficking in drugs --- Trafficking in narcotics --- Drug abuse and crime --- Narco-terrorism --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Youths --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Amphetamine abuse --- Prices and sale --- Myanmar --- Southeast Asia --- narcotics --- borders --- drugs --- golden triangle --- organized crime --- Burma --- Thailand --- trafficking

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This Special Issue covers a broad range of topics related to the mineralogy of noble metals (Au, Ag, Pt, Pd, Rh, and Ru) and the occurrence, formation, and distribution of these elements in natural ore-forming systems. This collection of eleven research articles discusses various problems related to these topics. I hope this Special Issue will contribute to a better understanding of the genesis of gold, silver, and other noble metal deposits as well as the behavior of these elements in endogenic and supergene environments, and suggest ways forward to solving the problem of their full extraction from ores.

Southeast Guizhou --- n/a --- Nibao gold deposit --- arsenopyrite --- gold selenide --- mineralization age --- thermodynamic modeling --- S)-oxides --- Cu-Fe-Ni-S system --- chlorargyrite --- colloids --- Fe-Sb(Te --- pyrite --- mustard gold --- Mössbauer Effect --- platinum --- gold mineralization --- nanoparticles --- magnetite veins --- dyscrasite --- chloride complexes --- calaverite --- metalloid elements --- maletoyvayamite --- gold ore deposits --- ligand surroundings --- platinum-group elements --- fractional crystallization --- fluid regime --- native gold --- Southern Urals --- monolithic and porous gold --- Rb–Sr isotopic composition --- Gaching ore deposit --- antigorite serpentinites --- Fennoscandian Shield --- zircon U–Pb age --- Ag --- karst cavities --- gold sulfoselenide --- Yunnan–Guizhou–Guangxi “Golden Triangle” region --- As)-oxides --- distribution --- sulfide minerals --- Tl tellurates and antimonates --- gold ore field --- valleriite --- gold --- Tl oxides (avicennite) --- nucleation --- drop-shaped inclusions --- As --- structural and surficial modes --- Kolmozero–Voronya belt --- gold source --- S --- Au --- non-equal positions --- ore genesis --- XPS --- liquid intermediates --- crystal lattice --- Chaoyangzhai gold deposit --- Au-Sb(Te --- Kagan ultramafic massif --- deposition --- invisible species --- noble metals --- in situ sulfur isotopes --- Se --- “invisible” gold --- Oleninskoe deposit --- ore-forming fluid --- Tl carbonates