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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

    The type of agrarian structure employed to produce tropical commodities affects many dimensions of land use, such as ownership inequality, overlapping land rights and conflicts, and land use changes. I conduct a literature review of historical changes in agrarian structures of commodities grown on the upland frontier of mainland Southeast and South Asia, using a case study approach, of tea, rubber, oil palm and cassava.

  2. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Thailand

    Using plot-level data, the authors
    estimate a bi-variate probit model to explain land clearing,
    and the siting of protected areas in North Thailand in 1986.
    Their model suggests that protected areas (national parks,
    together with wildlife sanctuaries) did not reduce the
    likelihood of forest clearing, but wildlife sanctuaries may
    have reduced the probability of deforestation. Road
    building, by reducing the impedance-weighted distance to

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2014
    Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand

    This report provides an outline of protected areas and biodiversity in the Lower Mekong Basin. The analysis contains an overview of threats to protected areas from climate change, as well as non-climate threats such as land concessions, infrastructure development, illegal activities, and agriculture.

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