Defining degradation : the impacts of swidden on forests in Northern Thailand

Special issue on integrating natural and social environmental science

Auteur :
SCHMIDT-VOGT, D.

Description :
A reevaluation of the usual view that shifting cultivation leads to forest degradation, soil erosion, water shortages, and other undesirable changes. Author examines the swidden farming near three upland villages in northern Thailand. swiddens of the Lawa and Karen ethnic groups provided better land however, swidden of the one Akha village led to species loss and less economically useful secondary forest growth. - (SLD)


Type de document :
Article de monographie

Source :
Mountain research and development, issn : 0276-4741, 1998, vol. 18, n°. 2, p. 135-149, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 35 ref.

Date :
1998

Editeur :
Pays édition : Japon, Tokyo, United Nations University