Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands

by Will Smith

Swidden agriculture has long been considered the primary cause of deforestation throughout Southeast Asia, and the Philippine government has used this belief to exclude the indigenous people of Palawan Island from their ancestral lands and to force them to abandon traditional modes of land use. After adopting ostensibly modern and ecologically sustainable livelihoods, the Pala'wan people have experienced drought and uncertain weather patterns,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029574815X
• ISBN13: 9780295748153
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"