Agricultural Expansion and Pioneer Settlements in the Humid Tropics (1988): Acknowledgments

Agricultural Expansion and Pioneer Settlements in the Humid Tropics (1988)

		Acknowledgments
		1. Introduction
		2. Spontaneous and planned settlement in south-east Asia
		3. Types of spontaneous pioneer settlement in Thailand
		4. The forest colonization process: case studies of two communities in north-east and south-east Thailand
		5. Differentiation and dynamics of land-use systems in a mountain-valley environment: a area, case study of new colonization areas in the Upper Mae Nam Pa Sak catchment Thailand
		6. Man in the mangrove forest: a socio-economic case study in Southern Thailand
		7. The Jengka Triangle: a report on research in progress
		8. Energy use in West Malaysian rural villages, with special reference to Felda villages
		9. Are Malaysian land settlers (new) peasants? Antropological observation of a nascent Community
		10. Resource use of frontiers and pioneer settlement in southern Sumatra
		11. Ex-military settlements in Indonesia and the emergence of social differentiation in frontier areas
		12. A survey of government pioneer land settlement programmes in south-east Asia
		13. Un exemple de colonisation des terres marginales: le cas du nord-est Ivoirien
		14. The land Tenure and agrarian system in the new cocoa frontier of Ghana: Wassa Akropong case study
		15. Colonization in Central America
		16. Organized settlement on the Amazon frontier: The Caquetá project in Colombia
		17. The colonization and occupation of Brazilian Amazonia
		Participants and contributors

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at a workshop, "Resource Use of Frontiers and Pioneer Settlements in the Humid Tropics," held in Kuala Lumpur in September of 1985. The workshop was a contribution to a more general United Nations University programme on resource policy and management in the humid tropics, comprising projects on agro-forestry systems, coastal resource management, highlandlowland interactive systems, and climatic, biotic, and human interactions. Stressing the interaction between population, resources, the environment, and development, this UNU programme and its projects were created with the aim of identifying and fostering appropriate and sustainable resource systems and, more generally. of maintaining at an international level continuing research, training, and dissemination.

Six of the papers included in Agricultural Expansion and Pioneer Settlements in the Humid Tropics present the findings of mangrove research undertaken as part of the Coastal Resources Management Project; the other contributions are by invited participants and constitute general reviews or the results of research performed outside the UNU project.

All the studies presented here concern themselves in various ways with spontaneous and planned pioneer settlement in the humid tropics, with its failures as well as its successes, its economic, social, and environmental impact and constraints, and, finally, present a unique composite portrait of the state of the pioneer settlement zone in the humid tropics; it is hoped the present volume may provide guidelines and suggest policies for future colonization and settlement efforts.

Agricultural Expansion and Pioneer Settlements in the Humid Tropics
Selected papers presented at a workshop held in Kuala Lumpur, 17-21 September 1985
Edited by Walther Manshard and William B. Morgan