Future climate change policy in developing countries is likely to require both technology transfer and the achievement of a “development dividend.” This paper analyzes how cross-sector partnerships between investors, municipalities, and citizens can enhance both technology transfer and local...

Debates about ecotourism are futile without an understanding of how concepts of ecologically acceptable and unacceptable forms of tourism are developed. This paper assesses the case of public opposition to the filming of the Hollywood film, The Beach, in Thailand on grounds that it caused...

Debates about ecotourism are futile without an understanding of how concepts of ecologically acceptable and unacceptable forms of tourism are developed. This paper assesses the case of public opposition to the filming of the Hollywood film, The Beach, in Thailand on grounds that it caused...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to debates about environmental policy in developing countries by examining how far sustainable livelihoods approaches (SLAs) to development may allow an alternative and less universalistic approach to environmental changes such as soil...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword, by K. Sivaramakrishnan -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Environmental Crisis and the Crisis of Knowledge -- 2. Mountains, Rivers, and Regulated Forests -- 3. Upland People -- 4. Forests and Water -- 5 Water Demand -- 6. Erosion -- 7. Agrochemicals -- 8. Biodiversi -- 9....