Anthropogenic Tropical Forests: Human-Nature Interfaces on the Plantation Frontier

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Drawing on the expertise of both natural scientists and social scientists, the key focus is the process of commodification of nature that has turned the local landscape into anthropogenic tropical forests. Analysing the transformation of the space of mixed landscapes and multiethnic communities--driven by trade in forest products, logging...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811375119
• ISBN13: 9789811375118
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 641 Pages
• Weight: 2.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"