Table of Contents

1. Between Global and Local: Contests for Development 2. Volcanic Eruption as Metaphor of Social Integration: A Political Ecological Study of Mount Merapi, Central Java 3. Pacific Island Rural Development: Challenges and Prospects in Kiribati 4. Agricultural Landscapes of Kadavu: Persistence and Change on the Fijian Periphery 5. Tree Crops and the Cultivated Landscapes of the Southwest Pacific 6. Land Reform and the State in Vietnam’s Northwest Mountains 7. Seeds of Discontent: Oil Palm and Changing Production Strategies among Smallholders in Papua New Guinea 8. Holding on to Modernity? Siwai, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea 9. Oil Palm Expansion in Sarawak: Lessons Learned by a Latecomer? 10. Can Indonesia’s Complex Forests Survive Globalisation and Decentralisation? Sanggau District, West Kalimantan 11. Seeing ‘Water Blindness’: Water Control in Agricultural Intensification and Environmental Change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam 12. Rethinking Watershed Science: Lessons from Thailand 13. Civil Society and Interdependencies: Towards a Regional Political Ecology of Mekong Development