Integrated Studies of Social and Natural Environmental Transition in Laos

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Yokoyama, Satoshi (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Okamoto, Kohei (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Takenaka, Chisato (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hirota, Isao (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
• Θέματα: Geography.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Environmental management.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Environmental Management.

This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better or worse, rural development an...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Laos in transition: The runner in front, leading the race or lagging a lap behind?
• The impact of urbanization on land use and the changing role of forests in Vientiane
• Mountainous livelihood in northern Laos: historical transition and current situation of a swidden village
• Grazing behavior and local management of cattle and buffaloes in rural Laos
• Analysis of monsoon climate variability for swidden agriculture in northern Laos
• Land use management and plant utilization of a swidden system in northern Laos –A case study of Kachet village, Nam Bak district, Luang Phabang Province
• Spatial analysis of flood area and its impact on rice production on Vientiane Plain
• Influence of human activity on water and soil conditions of agricultural land in Laos.