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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1150–1151.
Published: 01 November 1997
... evidence. D W I G H T Y. K I N G Northern Illinois University Borneo Log: The Strugglefor Sarawak's Forests. By WILLIAM W. BEVIS. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. x, 245 pp. $19-95. Strictly speaking, this is not an academic piece of work and it does not pretend to be one. Rather, this book...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 947–966.
Published: 01 November 1997
... municipal, congressional, or provincial bailiwicks, through landownership, commercial networks, logging or mining concessions, transportation companies, or control over illegal economies (Gutierrez 1994). Finally, evidence that fraud, vote-buying, and violence have decisively shaped the conduct and outcome...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1151–1153.
Published: 01 November 1997
... Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1151 logging in Sarawak's virgin rainforests. His findings are neither new nor original: logging is inextricably tied to the political patronage system in Sarawak, the natives whose lands are being logged get next to nothing in real economic terms...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 284–286.
Published: 01 February 1998
... Hydroelectric Project is Damned. Second edition. Kuala Lumpur: INSAN, 1996. xx, 126 pp. $5.00. The two books reviewed here refer to the ongoing controversy concerning human environmental issues in Sarawak, specifically to the matters of logging and the Bakun dam. Both concern developments that first gained...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 319–332.
Published: 01 May 2018
... forestry Imjin War Korean history logging military pine wood resources For Korea, the Imjin War (1592–98) was an unmitigated tragedy. 1 An estimated 20 percent of the population died or was abducted during the conflict. Arable land was reduced to 66 percent of the prewar total. Countless...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1163–1188.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and programs that are in tension with each other: extraction of forest resources (logging) to fill national requirements and keep forestry production units in business, afforestation to replenish those resources and contain erosion, and the conservation of existing forest to preserve biodiversity. In aggregate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 218–219.
Published: 01 February 1993
... and ecological consequences that follow from it (including dislocation of upland peoples, loss of biodiversity, soil erosion and loss of upland productivity, and increased flooding in lowland areas) and because of the political and socioeconomic conditions that cause it (including logging, the expansion...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 February 2022
...). Moreover, the market allowed the timber industry to expand to geographies and markets with far greater scope and efficiency than state logging operations could have managed. Southern timber markets delivered at least five million logs per year to downstream consumers in the Lower Yangzi. The monograph...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1340–1342.
Published: 01 November 2003
... of the rapid population growth in the Philippines and the inequality in land distribution. Ross also indicates that politicians distributed squatting or settlement rights to logged-over land in a manner similar to the way they had distributed timber rights. By the 1970s, Sabah's forestry institutions had been...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (2): 449–450.
Published: 01 May 1991
... and social organization. The bulk of the monograph, however, focuses on disturbances by means of climate, swiddening, burning, and logging. Two concluding chapters summarize successional processes in the upland areas in Zambales province and assess what the research suggests about the utility...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 679–681.
Published: 01 August 1989
... prejudicial. Their activities receive far more attention here than those of loggers, apparently because, in the author's view, logging only temporarily "degrades" the forest in a manner from which it would subsequently recover, if only shifting cultivators would not "encroach upon" newly logged areas...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 1024–1025.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of unchecked deforestation (p. 142).The process of mass logging, monks believe, is rooted in the Buddhist notion of the Three Poisons that comprise the causes of human suffering: greed, ignorance, and anger. In order to relieve human suffering produced by the environmental damage of logging, monks have, along...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 455.
Published: 01 May 2022
...John S. Lee Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Chosŏn Korea early modern state environmental history forestry Imjin War Korean history logging military pine wood resources corrigendum https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911817001322 , published...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 239–241.
Published: 01 February 2015
... to their advantage by facilitating logging operations run by Malaysians. While the central government saw timber extraction as illegal and the involvement of Malaysians as a threat, the Iban understood logging as part of managing their traditional forest lands and welcomed the involvement of Malaysians who respected...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 216–218.
Published: 01 February 1993
... and loss of upland productivity, and increased flooding in lowland areas) and because of the political and socioeconomic conditions that cause it (including logging, the expansion of agriculture, rural poverty and landlessness, and high rates of population growth). Deforestation is, in reality, a series...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1173–1175.
Published: 01 November 1997
... is sensitive to the sun and must keep its skin protected by living in the forest. The constant logging of the rain forests of Thailand has led to depletion of habitat for the elephant. Ironically, after the devastating 1989 floods in Southern Thailand due to deforestation, which led to the government's putting...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 115–139.
Published: 01 February 2013
...). In response, Yalu Hydropower put faith in its own technical expertise and began designing six special logging channels despite serious internal doubts about its ability to calculate the proper inclines to facilitate varying and unpredictable streamflows. Its plan was to unbundle the rafts before they reached...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1162–1163.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in illegal logging and other forms of resource extraction has enriched those in power while causing severe environmental degradation. He claims that the current government has thus prevented Cambodia from living up to its “obvious potential” to be internally stable and economically successful (p. 186...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (3): 660.
Published: 01 May 1969
... 660 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES is a day by day log o£ events with sources given for each event and brief commentaries on them and is a basic and valuable source. The Enigma of China is a collection of articles and editorials on China during 1966-67 which appeared in the Asahi papers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 864–867.
Published: 01 August 2001
..., straight transliteration is infinitely preferable to the phonetically inaccurate "Khrim gos rangwang rangtsen" for khrim-sgo rang-dbang rang-btsan (p. 128), or "sanas-zbung" for sa-gnas gzhung (p. 477). In a few instances too, the translation of terms is a bit imprecise. Thus, "Log-chopa," which represents...
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