Against 'Green Development Fantasies': Resource degradation and the lack of community resistance in the Middle Mahakam Wetlands, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Asian Journal of Social Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 258-278

  Nooteboom, Gerben ^a   De Jong, Edwin B P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conservation; East Kalimantan; Fishing communities; Indigenous knowledge; Indonesia; Natural resource management; Resistance (lack of); Resource degradation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ETHNICITY; EXPLOITATION; FISHING COMMUNITY; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; NATURAL RESOURCE; NATURE CONSERVATION;

EAST KALIMANTAN; INDONESIA;

ELAEIS;

EID: 77950547472     PISSN: 15684849     EISSN: 15685314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853110X490935     Document Type: Article

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