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Anthropogenic Tropical Forests - Human-Nature Interfaces on the Plantation Frontier (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Anthropogenic Tropical Forests - Human-Nature Interfaces on the Plantation Frontier (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
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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 and the
cultivation of oil palm-the contributors explore the changing
nature of the environment, multispecies interactions, and the
metabolism between capitalism and nature. The project involved the
collaboration of researchers specialising in anthropology,
geography, Southeast Asian history, global history, area studies,
political ecology, environmental economics, plant ecology, animal
ecology, forest ecology, hydrology, ichthyology, geomorphology and
life-cycle assessment. Collectively, the transdisciplinary research
addresses a number of vital questions. How are material cycles and
food webs altered as a result of large-scale land-use change? How
have new commodity chains emerged while older ones have
disappeared? What changes are associated with such shifts? What are
the relationships among these three elements-commodity chains,
material cycles and food webs? Attempts to answer these questions
led the team to go beyond the dichotomy of society and nature as
well as human and non-human. Rather, the research highlights
complex relational entanglements of the two worlds, abruptly and
forcibly connected by human-induced changes in an emergent and
compelling resource frontier in maritime Southeast Asia. Chapters
'Commodification of Nature on the Plantation Frontier' and 'Into a
New Epoch: The Plantationocene' are available open access under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0
International License via link.springer.com.
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