Professor Research School of Pacific Studies Harold Brookfield

H. C. Brookfield

Universidad de las Naciones Unidas

Yvonne Byron

Lesley M. Potter

This book describes the modern transformation of Borneo and the eastern side of the Malay Peninsula, an area considered to be "environmentally critical" because of the massive deforestation that has taken place there since the 1960s. The conclusions indicate that great dangers arise from national policies that continue to treat this region as a "resource frontier" despite its growing resource scarcity.

Environmental and Socio-economic Transformation in Borneo and the Eastern Malay Peninsula

In Place of the Forest

Piers Blaikie

Harold Brookfield

Why does land management so often fail to prevent soil erosion, deforestation, salination and flooding? How serious are these problems, and for whom? This book, first published in 1987, sets out to answer these questions, which are still some of the most crucial issues in development today, using an approach called 'regional political ecology'. This approach acknowledges that the reason why land management can fail are extremely varied, and must include a thorough understanding of the changing natural resource base itself, the human response to this, and broader changes in society, of which land managers are a part. Land Degradation and Society is essential reading for all students of geography, agriculture, social sciences, development studies and related subjects.

Land Degradation and Society

Professor Research School of Pacific Studies Harold Brookfield

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