Transborder Governance of Forests, Rivers and Seas
Transborder Governance of Forests, Rivers and Seas
Edited by
Wil de Jong, Denyse Snelder
and Noboru Ishikawa
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Transborder governance of forests, rivers and seas / edited by Wil de Jong, Denyse Snelder, and Noboru Ishikawa.
p. cm
Includes bibliographical data and index.
ISBN 978-1-84971-223-1 (hardback)
1. Conservation of natural resourcesInternational cooperation. 2. Conservation of natural resourcesInternational cooperationCase studies. 3. Forest conservation. 4. Forest conservationCase studies. 5. Stream conservation. 6. Stream conservationCase studies. 7. Marine resources conservation. 8. Marine resources conservationCase studies.
I. Jong, Wil de. II. Snelder, Denyse J. III. Ishikawa, Noboru.
S944.5.I57.T73 2010
333.75'16dc22
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Tables
List of Contributors
Dedi S. Adhuri is a Scientist at the World Fish Center, Penang, Malaysia. He is also associated with the Research Center for Society and Culture, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Jun Akamine is Associate Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya City University, Japan.
Serge Bahuchet is Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Eco-anthropology and Ethno-biology, Museum of Natural History, France.
Francesc Cots is a Researcher at the Forest Technology Centre of Catalonia, Spain.
Wil de Jong is Professor at the Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
Kristen Evans is an independent consultant and affiliated with the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA.
Rebecca Hardin is Associate Professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, USA.
Noboru Ishikawa is Associate Professor at the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
Zhuning Lei is Assistant Researcher at the Yunnan Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences of China.
Kate Lonsdale is Science Liaison Officer with the UK Climate Impacts Programme, Oxford, UK.
Dave Lumenta is Associate Researcher at the Department of Anthropology, University of Indonesia.
Andres B. Masipiquea (deceased) was Professor at the College of Forestry and Environmental Management, Isabela State University, Philippines.
Mercedes D. Masipiquea is Professor at the College of Forestry and Environmental Management, Isabela State University, Philippines.
Darryn McEvoy is leader of the Climate Change Adaptation Programme, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and Deputy Director of the Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research.
Marine Robillard is Researcher at the Laboratory for Eco-anthropology and Ethno-biology, Museum of Natural History, France.
Denyse J. Snelder is Associate Professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, and Senior Specialist, Sustainable Land Management, at the Centre for International Cooperation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Joan David Tbara is Associate Senior Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Leontine E. Visser is Professor and Chair of the Rural Development Sociology Group, Wageningen University and Research Center, Netherlands.
Saskia Werners is PhD researcher at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands.
Foreword
Borders and borderlands are prominent concepts and research topics in Area Studies. Area Studies traditionally are understood as multidisciplinary research efforts that focus on one particular geographic unit, which led to specializations of, for instance, Southeast Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, single nation-state studies, and many others. Borderland Studies fit in this tradition as they share a multidisciplinary approach to a confined geographical space. However, in the case of Borderland Studies, the confined geographical space is not one particular geographic unit, but rather a collective of areas, namely borderlands, that share similar features. Such close links between Area Studies and Borderland Studies is the reason why the three Area Studies research institutions within Kyoto University the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), and the Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS) have paid attention to borderlands.
The volume Transborder Governance of Forests, Rivers and Seas, of which two of the three editors are from Kyoto University Area Studies centres, contains a significant suggestion that Area Studies and Borderland Studies could play an important role in contemporary academia. While the topic of this book itself fits well within the research tradition of Area Studies, it also links with two important areas of current academic inquiry. Natural resource governance has become a prominent theme debated among academics, natural resource management specialists and development cooperation agencies, among others. Furthermore, the globalization phenomenon is not only increasingly linking the national capitals of countries that are located at opposite poles of the globe, but it also has led to an increased integration worldwide of economies and social networks of people who live in confined geographical spaces across national borders. Given these two trends, a volume that compiles divergent cases of natural resource governance across national borders, and that explores the implications of these cases for some of the contemporary academic debates, is a logical and timely contribution to the international literature.
