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Laos and the making of a 'relational' resource frontier
This paper seeks to reconsider the contemporary relevance of the resource frontier, drawing on examples of nature's commodification and enclosure under way in the peripheral Southeast Asian country…
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LAND, LIVELIHOODS, AND REMITTANCES
This article seeks to draw connections between a political ecology of global investment in resource sector development and a culturally informed understanding of rural out-migration across the…
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Re‐encountering resistance: Plantation activism and smallholder production in Thailand and Sarawak, Malaysia
The emergence of social and environmental movements against plantation forestry in Southeast Asia positions rural devel- opment against local displacement and environmental degradation. Multi-scaled…
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The China Forest Products Trade: Overview of Asia-Pacific Supplying Countries, Impacts and Implications
SUMMARY Over 70% of China's timber product imports are supplied by countries in the Asia Pacific region, and China is the dominant forest product market for many of these countries. Unsustainable…
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Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a “Best Practice” Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR
ABSTRACT Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most significantly to…
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The political ecology of cross-sectoral cumulative impacts: modern landscapes, large hydropower dams and industrial tree plantations in Laos and Cambodia
Environmental and social impact assessment is now a widely accepted tool in the Mekong Region for assessing the impacts of hydropower dams and large-scale industrial tree plantations. However, the…
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Power, progress and impoverishment: plantations, hydropower, ecological change and community transformation inHinboun District, Lao PDR: a field report
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INTERNAL RESETTLEMENT IN LAOS
In this response to an article by Holly High, “The Implications of Aspirations: Reconsidering Resettlement in Laos,” published in Critical Asian Studies in December 2008 (vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 531–50),…
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Reassembling informal gold‑mining for development and sustainability? Opportunities and limits to formalisation in India, Indonesia and Laos
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Local Vulnerability, Project Risk, and Intractable Debt: The Politics of Smallholder Eucalyptus Promotion in Salavane Province, Southern Laos
This paper analyses the ideology, implementation and outcomes of a donor-based smallholder tree planting project in Lao PDR. Drawing on project documents and local level fieldwork in southern Laos,…
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