Degradation and loss of forest land and land-use changes in Sarawak, East Malaysia: A study of native land use by the Iban

Ecological Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 403-413

  Ichikawa, Masahiro ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Commercial logging; Iban; Oil palm plantation; Sarawak; Secondary forest; Swidden agriculture; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ETHNIC GROUP; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); MONOCULTURE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RAINFOREST; SECONDARY FOREST; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TROPICAL REGION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ASIA; EAST MALAYSIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SARAWAK; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ELAEIS;

EID: 34248220571     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-007-0365-0     Document Type: Article

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