Anthropogenic tropical forests : human-nature interfaces on the plantation frontier

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Anthropogenic tropical forests : human-nature interfaces on the plantation frontier

Noboru Ishikawa, Ryoji Soda, editors

（Advances in Asian human-environmental research）

Springer, 2021, c2020

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Drawing on the expertise of both natural scientists and social scientists, the key focus is the process of commodification of nature that has turned the local landscape into anthropogenic tropical forests. Analysing the transformation of the space of mixed landscapes and multiethnic communities-driven by trade in forest products, logging and the cultivation of oil palm-the contributors explore the changing nature of the environment, multispecies interactions, and the metabolism between capitalism and nature. The project involved the collaboration of researchers specialising in anthropology, geography, Southeast Asian history, global history, area studies, political ecology, environmental economics, plant ecology, animal ecology, forest ecology, hydrology, ichthyology, geomorphology and life-cycle assessment. Collectively, the transdisciplinary research addresses a number of vital questions. How are material cycles and food webs altered as a result of large-scale land-use change? How have new commodity chains emerged while older ones have disappeared? What changes are associated with such shifts? What are the relationships among these three elements-commodity chains, material cycles and food webs? Attempts to answer these questions led the team to go beyond the dichotomy of society and nature as well as human and non-human. Rather, the research highlights complex relational entanglements of the two worlds, abruptly and forcibly connected by human-induced changes in an emergent and compelling resource frontier in maritime Southeast Asia. Chapters 'Commodification of Nature on the Plantation Frontier' and 'Into a New Epoch: The Plantationocene' are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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1 Commodification of Nature on the Plantation Frontier Noboru Ishikawa and Ryoji Soda Part I Landscape, Culture and History 2 Geomorphological Landscapes of Borneo and Riverine Society of the Kemena Catchment, Sarawak Kuniyasu Mokudai, Ryoji Soda and Takuma Watakabe 3 Land-use Types along the Kemena River-Tubau-Lower Jelalong Region, Sarawak Jason Hon and Hiromitsu Samejima 4 Trend Analysis of Rainfall Characteristics in the Kemena and Tatau River Basins, Sarawak Osamu Kozan 5 Multiethnic Society of Northwest Borneo: An Ethnographic Analysis Yumi Kato, Jayl Langub, Abdul Rashid Abdullah, Hiromitsu Samejima, Ryoji Soda, Motomitsu Uchibori, Katsumi Okuno and Noboru Ishikawa 6 Commodified Frontier: Jungle Produce Trade and Kemena Basin Society in History Mayumi Ishikawa and Noboru Ishikawa 7 The History of Local Communities: Migration, Kin Relations and Ethnicity Jayl Langub Part II Inflection Points of Nature 8 Diversity of Medium- to Large-sized Ground-dwelling Mammals and Terrestrial Birds in Sarawak Hiromitsu Samejima and Jason Hon 9 Species Composition and Use of Natural Salt Licks by Wildlife Inside a Production Forest Environment in Central Sarawak Jason Hon, Shozo Shibata and Hiromitsu Samejima 10 Above-Ground Biomass and Tree Species Diversity in Anap Sustainable Development Unit, Sarawak Hiromitsu Samejima, Malcom Demies, Miyako Koizumi and Shogoro Fujiki 11 Influence of Herbicide Use in Oil Palm Plantations on Stream Water Chemistry in Sarawak Naoko Tokuchi, Hiromitsu Samejima, Jason Hon and Keitaro Fukushima 12 Spatial Variations in Dissolved and Particulate Organic Carbon in the Kemena and Tatau Rivers, Sarawak Keitaro Fukushima, Naoko Tokuchi, Hiromitsu Samejima, Jason Hon and Yuichi Kano 13 Stream Fish Biodiversity and the Effects of Plantations in the Bintulu Region, Sarawak Yuichi Kano, Jason Hon, Mohd Khairulazman Sulaiman, Mitsuhiro Aizu, Koji Noshita and Hiromitsu Samejima Part III Plantations as Social Complexes and Infrastructure 14 The Effects of Landscape and Livelihood Transitions on Hunting Activity in Sarawak Yumi Kato and Hiromitsu Samejima 15 From River to Road? Changing Living Patterns and Land Use of Inland Indigenous Peoples Ryoji Soda, Noboru Ishikawa and Yumi Kato 16 The Impact of RSPO Certification on Oil Palm Smallholdings in Sarawak Yumi Kato and Ryoji Soda 17 The Autonomy and Sustainability of Small-scale Oil Palm Farming in Sarawak Ryoji Soda and Yumi Kato Part IV Commodification and Local Processes 18 The Bird's Nest Commodity Chain between Sarawak and China Daniel Chew, Yu Xin, Ryoji Soda, Tetsu Ichikawa and Noboru Ishikawa 19 The Feeding Ecology of Edible Nest Swiftlets in a Modified Landscape in Sarawak Motoko Fujita and Charles Leh 20 Swiftlet Farming: New Commodity Chains and Techniques Haruka Suzuki, Tetsu Ichikawa, Logie Seman and Motoko Fujita 21 Current Status and Distribution of Communally Reserved Forests in a Human-modified Landscape in Bintulu, Sarawak Yayoi Takeuchi, Ryoji Soda, Hiromitsu Samejima and Bibian Diway 22 Transitions in the Utilisation and Trade of Rattan in Sarawak: Past to Present, Local to Global Yayoi Takeuchi, Atsushi Kobayashi and Bibian Diway 23 Oil Palm Plantations and Bezoar Stones: An Ethnographic Sketch of Human-Nature Interactions in Sarawak Katsumi Okuno and Tetsu Ichikawa 24 Estate and Smallholding Oil Palm Production in Sarawak: A Comparison of Profitability and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fumikazu Ubukata and Yucho Sadamichi 25 Tropical Timber Trading from Southeast Asia to Japan Hiromitsu Samejima 26 Certifying Borneo's Forest Landscape: Implementation Process of Forest Certification in Sarawak Daisuke Naito and Noboru Ishikawa 27 Changing Patterns of Sarawak's Exports, c.1870-2013 Atsushi Kobayashi and Kaoru Sugihara Part V Coda 28 Into a New Epoch: Capitalist Nature in the Plantationocene Noboru Ishikawa Index Glossary of Non-English Terms

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