Quagmire - Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta

Klappentext David Biggs is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. Zusammenfassung By exploring the delta as a quagmire in both natural and political terms! Biggs shows how engineered transformations of the Mekong Delta landscape-channelized rivers! a complex canal system! hydropower development! deforestation-have interacted with equally complex transformations in the geopolitics of the region.

Product details

• Authors: david Biggs, David Andrew Biggs, David Andrew Biggs Biggs, David T. Biggs
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2011
• EAN: 9780295990675
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99067-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)