Pacific Asia

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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the regional character; Pacific Asia in its global setting; Key ideas; An historical geography of Pacific Asia; The pre-colonial period; Case study A: Angkor, Cambodia a pre-colonial empire; Mercantile colonialism; Industrial colonialism; Case study B: Vietnam colonialism and its impact; Late colonialism; The colonial legacy; Key ideas; Physical and human resource management: Malaysia and Papua New Guinea; Non-agricultural resource exploitation: some background considerations

Case study C: Papua New Guinea Ok Tedi bares its soulMalaysia: some environmental impacts of non-agricultural exploitation resource; Case study D: At loggerheads in Sarawak; Papua New Guinea: the fusion of physical and human resource exploitation and reaction; Human resource potential: exploitation or realization?; Case study E: Hong Kong not so fragrant harbour; Case study F: Water and health; Key ideas; Rural and regional development; Explaining spatial inequality; Case study G: Food dependency; Policies for rural and regional development

Case study H: Malaysia winners and losers in the green revolutionIntegrated rural development; Thailand: regional imbalance and rural poverty; Vietnam: reunification, rural and regional development; South Korea: growth and equity; Conclusions: a comparison of Thailand, Vietnam and South Korea; Key ideas; Population growth and mobility; Case study I: Singapore and Malaysia family planning in reverse; Population movements in Pacific Asia; Case study J: Hong Kong urban or international migration; Indonesian population movements; Key ideas; Ethnic plurality and development in Malaysia

Case study K: Burma an ethnic kaleidoscopeFrom Malacca to Malaysia: the evolution of the modern state; Years of illusion: 1957 to 1970; Years of disillusion: the New Economic Policy since 1970; Conclusion: present and future problems for Malaysia; Key ideas; Industrialization and the four little tigers; Pacific Asia's four little tigers; A Pacific Asian model for industrial development; Case study L: Guangdong Pacific Asia's fifth tiger; Social change and economic growth; Case study M: Domestic workers in the Philippines garment industries; Key ideas

Urbanization and urban planning in Hong KongPost-colonial trends in economic and urban growth; The evolution of contemporary Hong Kong; Urban transportation; Case study N: Singapore incorporation of the bus system; Case study O: Kuala Lumpur the rise of the minibus; Planning for the city-region; Key ideas; Gender and development: migration, urbanization and industrialization in Taiwan; The evolution of gender roles in development; Women's work in the city: some theoretical ideas; Case study P: Women's work patterns in Filipino cities; Women in the workforce in Pacific Asia

Case study Q: From traditionalism to socialism women and rapid change in Laos

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