Borneo Change and Development

• Main Authors: Cleary, Mark 1954- (Author), Eaton, Peter (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Oxford University Press Pte. Ltd. 1992
• Subjects: Natural resources > Borneo; Borneo > Economic conditions; Borneo > Politics and government; Borneo > Economic policy
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• Physical Description: ix, 271 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references ([246]-262) and index
• ISBN: 0195885872

In recent years, the pace of environmental, economic, and social change in Borneo has stimulated interest amongst both researchers and the general public in issues such as logging, the future of once-isolated ethnic groups, shifting agriculture, and balanced economic growth. Borneo: Change and Development seeks to provide the necessary context - historical, economic, environmental, and social - within which to evaluate such issues. It is also the first book to examine change and development for the island as a whole. Fragmented largely through the impact of colonialism, its political divisions into Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Darussalam, and Kalimantan have tended to obscure the strong similarities in development patterns throughout the island.