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Landmines in Cambodia - Past, Present, and Future (Hardcover, New)
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Landmines in Cambodia - Past, Present, and Future (Hardcover, New)
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War, genocide, and foreign occupation have taken their toll on
Cambodia. These events have demolished infrastructure, overturned
ruling parties, and led to the deaths of millions. Although these
events are now past, many of the resulting ramifications still
linger. One such remnant of the past are the landmines--abundant in
number and pervasive in their propagation, landmine-related
contamination continues to impact lives more than 30 years after
the last war effort. The residual ordnance problem in Cambodia is
being confronted by a team of well-intentioned, motivated, and
hardworking professionals. Current efforts, however, do not
consider, account for, or target economic vulnerabilities that
individuals and family structures encounter. This study analyzes
the relationship between economic vulnerability and
landmine-related incidents. Specific accountability for
vulnerability is given in terms of poverty assessment, agricultural
vulnerability, and the relationship between the price of metal and
tampering-specific behavior. This book provides the first and only
comprehensive historical account of landmine-related contamination
in Cambodia. This historical account contextualizes the magnitude,
origin, and impact of ordnance in Cambodia by analyzing each of the
ordnance contributing factions. In addition to providing an
historical analysis of landmine-related contamination, this book
assesses various types of vulnerability in conjunction with
landmine-related incidents. More precisely, poverty, agricultural
vulnerability, and the price of metal are all examined separately
in accordance with landmine-related accidents and tampering rates.
The author Wade Roberts presents research that has enabled the
first-ever analysis to take place testing the response of tampering
behavior to changing metal prices at the Cambodia-Thailand border.
This book also provides a unique approach to the landmine problem,
bringing in and comparing various socioeconomic variables of
poverty and economic need. Measures of poverty that prove
statistically significant in predicting landmine-related incidents
include levels of single parenting, the use of firewood for
cooking, migration proportions, population densities, male-female
sex-ratios, and with low levels of formal education. Critical
agricultural measures that are statistically correlated to
landmine-related incidents include net rice output, the supply of
water, rice yields, crop diversification, floods and droughts, and
nonrice agricultural production. The statistical analysis of the
price of metal reveals that tampering responds directly, and more
than proportionately, to a change in the price of scrap metal.
Suggested policy recommendations follow each of these analyses.
Given the rich combination of quantitative and qualitative data
coupled with the practical recommendations delineated, this book
will be of immense value to scholars in poverty management studies,
policy studies, and sociology.
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