Border practices, boundaries, and the control of resource access: A case from China, Thailand and Burma

Development and Change

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 463-484

  Sturgeon, Janet C ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; BORDER REGION; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RURAL POLITICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 3843117859     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2004.00361.x     Document Type: Article

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