Crossing borders, changing landscapes: Land-use dynamics in the Golden Triangle

Asia Pacific Issues

Volumn , Issue 92, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Fox, Jefferson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DIVERSIFICATION; CASH CROPPING; ECONOMIC REFORM; LABOR MOBILITY; LAND RIGHTS; LAND TENURE; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDOWNERSHIP; NATIONAL STRATEGY; POLICY STRATEGY; POLITICAL REFORM; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LAOS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; YUNNAN;

EID: 71449088495     PISSN: 15220966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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1. The term "Economic Quadrangle" (sometimes called the Golden Quadrangle) has its origins at the Chiang Rai (Thailand) Chamber of Commerce whose members think it a more desirable moniker than the infamous "Golden Triangle" to describe the area of potential economic growth and development including Yunnan, Burma, Laos, and Thailand. The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is the term used by the Asian Development Bank to describe the area comprised of Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
2. This work was supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) grant number 0434043 and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) grants NNG04GH59G and NNX08AL90G. NSF-funded collaborators in China included Xu Jianchu, Kunming Institute of Botany; Lu Xing and Zhang Peifang, Yunnan University; Nicholas Menzies, UCLA; and Janet Sturgeon, University of British Columbia. In Thailand, they included David Thomas, World Agroforestry Center, Chiang Mai; and Benchaphun Ekasingh, Chiang Mai University. In Laos, they included Khamla Phanvilay and Sithong Thomanivong, National University of Laos; and Yayoi Fujita, University of Chicago. Spatial information and modeling was done by John Vogler, East-West Center, Hawai'i. Project collaborators on the NASA-funded projects included Tom Giambelluca, University of Hawai'i; Alan Ziegler, University of Singapore; Peter Troch and Maite Guardiola, University of Arizona; and Omer Sen, Istanbul Technical University. The views and opinions expressed in the paper are those of the author, and all mistakes and omissions are the author's responsibility. For more information on this project, visit http://research.eastwestcenter.org/mmsea/.
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