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Guerrilla warfare --- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) --- Taiwan --- History, Military

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Ethnobotany --- Ethnobotany. --- Mountain peoples --- Mountain peoples. --- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) --- Thailand, Northern --- Thailand, Northern. --- Golden Triangle (Southeastern Asia). --- Social life and costoms.

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Countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar are seeking their niches in the emerging opportunities and constraints, that characterize today's international economic and political scene. This, coupled with the dynamism of the member states of ASEAN, makes Southeast Asia a particularly promising and exciting area at a turning point in world history and human affairs. Written in a format and style that is unencumbered by lengthy analyses or commentaries, Regional Outlook provides sucinct yet substantive and easily readable overviews and insights into the current geopolitical and economic situations in the individual countries and the region as a whole, together with the likely trends over the next year or so. The review serves as a useful and handy guide to the region's aspiration and prospects each year, in addition to casting a look ahead.

ASEAN. --- Association of Southeast Asian nations --- Southeast Asia --- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- Chin-san-chiao (Southeast Asia) --- Golden Triangle (Southeastern Asia) --- Jin San Jiao (Southeast Asia) --- Jinsanjiao (Southeast Asia) --- Triangle d'Or (Southeast Asia) --- Politics and government --- Economic integration. --- Economic conditions. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.

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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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Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival. Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been brought together in one place, Roger D. Stone and Claudia D'Andrea provide a clearly written and energizing tour of global efforts to empower community-based forest stewards. Along the way, they show the fundamental importance of tropical forest ecosystems and deepen our sense of urgency to save them for the benefit of billions of rural people in tropical and subtropical regions as well as for countless species of plants and animals. In their travels to research this book, the authors saw many remarkable examples of how proficient even the poorest local people can be in stabilizing and recovering formerly destitute forests. With engagingly written case studies from Thailand's Golden Triangle to Mindanao in the Philippines, from Indonesia, India, and Africa to Brazil, Mexico, and Central America, they introduce us to the communities and the individuals, the governments, the loggers, the agencies, and the local groups who vie for forest resources. Contrasting community-based efforts and traditional forest management with government and donor efforts, they discuss the many reasons why international institutions and national governments have been unable and unwilling to stem the accelerating loss of tropical forestland. This book argues we are paying a terrible price--politically, economically, and environmentally--for allowing tropical forests to be stripped. Community-based forestry is no panacea, but this book clearly shows its effectiveness as a management technique.

Forest conservation --- Forest management --- Community forests --- Citizen participation. --- Management. --- africa. --- brazil. --- case studies. --- central america. --- community based forestry. --- community based solutions. --- ecological change. --- ecologists. --- economic impact. --- field research. --- forest ecosystems. --- forest management. --- forest recovery. --- forest stewards. --- golden triangle. --- human impact. --- india. --- indonesia. --- local populations. --- mexico. --- mindanao. --- nonfiction. --- philippines. --- plant and animal species. --- subtropical regions. --- textbooks. --- thailand. --- tropical forests. --- tropical regions. --- tropics.