Agro-industrial plantations and transforming socio-ecological landscapes of Southern Laos : Forestry and Plantations in Southeast Asia
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https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/58444
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- Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universität Hamburg/ MCC/ Lecture2Go
- Verlag/Körperschaft:
- Universität Hamburg
- Erscheinungsjahr:
- 2021
- Medientyp:
- Audiovisuell
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- Asien-Afrika-Institut
- Beschreibung:
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- Since the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or Laos) liberalized its economy in the 1980s, it has pursued a development path built upon the exploitation of its natural environment – its forests, minerals, rivers, and agricultural land. In the early 2000s, the government began granting significant areas of the country’s land as concessions for resource investors. Over one million hectares were granted for mining and agro-industrial plantation projects. As with other countries across Southeast Asia, such land investments have produced devastating social and ecological effects, such as deforestation, soil degradation, chemical pollution, and land dispossession. Oftentimes, villagers, whose livelihoods were closely linked to land and forest resources, have struggled to adapt to the changes that plantations bring. This seminar will provide an overview of agro-industrial expansion in mainland Southeast Asia, with a focus on southern Laos. Based upon over a decade of research in Laos, it will highlight the drivers and governance of plantations and their implications for rural livelihoods and environments. Miles Kenney-Lazar is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography of the National University of Singapore. His research explores the changing political ecologies of land and property in the Mekong Region. In particular, he is interested in the capitalisation and commoditisation of land and how this impacts agrarian and environmental settings, and livelihoods. Empirically, he examines land contestation related to the expansion of Chinese, Vietnamese, and Burmese agro-industrial plantations and special economic zones in Laos and Myanmar.
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- UHH-L2G
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- Lecture2Go UHH
Interne Metadaten
- Quelldatensatz
- oai:lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de:58444