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Tim Forsyth provides a groundbreaking study into the role of international investment in energy technologies to combat climate change. He focuses on developing country requirements in Southeast Asia,
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Home to more than 70 million people of diverse ethnicities, the mountainous region where Vietnam, Laos, and China meet is undergoing great changes. The essays in the book examine how the region's peop
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Environmental debates concerning northern Thailand often simplistically categorize some agriculturalists as "forest destroyers" and others as "forest guardians," while failing to take into account the
The mountainous borderlands of socialist China, Vietnam, and Laos are home to some 70 million people, representing an astonishing array of ethnic diversity. How are these peoples fashioning livelihood
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