Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction
FURUKAWA Hisao
PART 1
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Ecological Destruction caused by Modern Technologies

Introduction to Part One

1 The Ecological Destruction of Coastal Peat Wetlands in Insular Southeast Asia
FURUKAWA Hisao

2 Ecological Issues of The Mega-Rice Project in Indonesia: A Case Study of Swampland Development in Central Kalimantan
Supiandi SABIHAM

3 From Colonization to Transmigration: Changing Policies in Population Resettlement
Sodiono M.P. TJONDRONEGORO

4 A National Project That Failed: A Tale of Population Resettlement Policy in Indonesia
RIWANTO Tirtosudarmo


5 The Twenty-Five Year Pursuit of Herbicide Damage of the Vietnam War: Tracing the Changes in the Environment and Human Health
NAKAMURA Goro


6 The Fate of 2,3,7,8-TCDD Herbicides and Defoliants Used During the Vietnam War
WAKIMOTO Tadaaki


7 The Severe Impact of Herbicides on Mangroves in the Vietnam War and the Ecological Effects of Reforestation
PHAN Nguyen Hong


8 Wartime Herbicides in the Mekong Delta and their Implications for Post-War Wetland Conservation
TRAN Triet, J.A. Barzen, L.E., CONG Kiet, and D. Moore


9 Agent Orange in the Vietnam War: Consequences and Measures for Overcoming it
LE Ke Son



PART 2
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Health

Introduction to Part Two

10 Molecular Epidemiology of Vibrio cholerae: Masquerade of a Deceptive Pathogen
G. Balakrish NAIR, Shah M. FARUQUE, Pallavi GARG,
T. RAMAMURTHY and TAKEDA Yoshifumi


11 Infection by a New Clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus: an Infectious Disease that Emerged in Asia and Spread to a World Wide Pandemic
NISHIBUCHI Mitsuaki


12 Burkholderia pseudomallei and the Environment
Savithri D. PUTHUCHEARY


13 Clinical Ecology of Vector-borne Diseases in Southeast Asia
OGIWARA Rie, and GOMI Harumi

14 Malaria Control Studies in Indonesia and Solomon Islands
ISHII Akira, NAGAI Nobuhiko, ARAI Meiji, HIRAI Makoto,
MATSUOKA Hiroyuki, KANEKO Akira, KAWABATA Masato,
OHTA Nobuo, ISHIKAWA Hirobumi, NAKAZAWA Minato,
William PANJAITAN, SAFEYI, Nathan KERE, and .Judson LEAFASIA


15 Effects of Intensification of the Traditional Farming System on the Environment and Bio-safety of the Human Population: Nipah Virus Outbreak in Malaysia
Narasiman MUNIANDY and Jamaluddin Abdul AZIZ


16 Water Quality Problems Affecting Livelihood in Bangladesh and Kazakhstan: A Natural Environment as a Local Area
ANDO Kazuo and ISHIDA Norio


17 Contamination and Toxic Effects of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Wildlife and Humans in Asia
TANABE Shinsuke


18 Ageing, Diseases and Ecology
MATSUBAYASHI Kozo and OKUMIYA Kiyohito


19 Chronomes, Aging and Disease
OTSUKA Kuniaki, MURAKAMI Shohgo, MATSUBAYASHI Kozo,
ZHAO Zi-yan, Andi WEYDAHL, N Truls LynnevHANSE,
MITSUTAKE Gen, NISHIMURA Yoshiko, KUBO Yutaka,
OHKAWA Shin-ichiro, YANO Shoki, Ram B SINGH,
Germaine CORNELISSEN,
and HALBERG Franz on behalf of ICEHRV working group


20 Application of Geographic Information Systems in International Health
TANIMURA Susumu and MIZOTA Tsutomu



PART 3
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Eco-resource Management in the Development Process

Introduction to Part Three

21 Development Policies and Development Trends in Vietnam's Northern Mountain Region
A. Terry RAMBO

22 Changes in Land Use in Black Thai Villages in Response to Changes in the National Land Management Policies
Thomas SIKOR and DAO MINH TRUONG


23 Changes in the Composite Swiddening System in Tat Hamlet in Vietnam's Northern Mountains in Response to Integration into the Market System
TRAN Duc Vien


24 Development Process Of Cash Crops in the Northern Mountains Region of Vietnam: A Case Study in Moc Chau District of Son La Province, Vietnam
YANAGISAWA Masayuki


25 Upland natural resources management strategies and policy in the Lao PDR
Phouang Parisak PRAVONGVIENKHAM


26 Changing Aspects of Shifting Cultivation in Northern Laos: Land Allocation Policy and Commercialization of Crop Production
KONO Yasuyuki, OKADA Hisaya, NAWATA Eiji and TOMITA Shinsuke


27 Management of Non-timber Forest Products in Laos: Fallow Forest Growing Styrax tonkinensis for Benzoin Production
TAKEDA Shinya


PART 4
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Indigenous Ecology Knowledge and Ecotechnology

Introduction to Part Four

28 Malay Riverbank Communities in Peat Swamp Forests of the Sumatran East Coast: Environment, Network and Transformation
MOMOSE Kuniyasu and SHIMAMURA Tetsuya


29 Aquatic Eco-resources Management and its Changes in Laos
IWATA Akihisa


30 Social Construction of Indigenous Knowledge: A Case Study of Villagers on the Taxonomy
of Soils in South India
K. BALASUBRAMANIAN


31 A Proposal for Asian Ecotechnology Networking for Eco-Resource Management
KAIDA Yoshihiro


Concluding Remarks
FURUKAWA Hisao

Index