… Malcolm Cairns is a consultant and researcher based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He was
recently a Research Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Kyoto …

Shifting cultivation continues as the economic mainstay of upland communities in many
countries in Southeast Asia. However, the conditions that historically underpinned the …

This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science
and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation …

Shifting cultivation supports around 200 million people in the Asia-Pacific region alone. It is
often regarded as a primitive and inefficient form of agriculture that destroys forests, causes …

As we approach the closing years of the millennium, new and innova? tive approaches to
National Park protection are urgently needed. Margins of forests that contain much of the …

Growing international concerns over global warming, biodiversity loss, and the ongoing
reduction of the world’s usable arable land have added new urgency to the old problem of …

… MALCOLM CAIRNS is a freelance researcher who was most recently a Fellow at the Centre
for Southeast Aian Studies (… All photographs in this chapter were taken by Malcolm Cairns. …

ICRAF's" Lecture notes" have been developed by its scientific staff in support of various
group training activities organised by the Centre. Views expressed are those of the author (s) …

Collapsing shifting cultivation systems and attendant environmental damage are pan-regional
problems across Asia-Pacific. It is a causal factor in some of the most serious challenges …

This paper is concerned with the implications of an expansion of regulated access to railway
infrastructure in Canada and the US to serve freight traffic. The methodology involves a …