Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand South India Most notably

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Cover illustration: Cambodian children in front of a Buddhist temple used as a killing field during the Khmer Rouge regime

both modern and premodern

This volume will prove to be an indispensable linguistic reference on the developments in form and usage of the various Shan scripts

donated their lacquer collection to the British Museum and their collection of sazigyo to Brighton Museum

Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand South India Most notablyBy Tim Forsyth & Andrew Walker In this far reaching examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker analyze deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, use of agrochemicals, and biodiversity in order to challenge popularly held notions of environmental crisis. They argue that such crises have been used to support political objectives of state expansion and control in the upland and to justify the