Issue 2: Disaster and Rehabilitation

Nature Preservation and International Finance

As an anthropologist on a large consulting team for the World Bank-funded Forest Protection and Barren Lands Development Project in the Central Highlands of Vietnam in early 1996, I was responsible for conveying the reality […]

Issue 2: Disaster and Rehabilitation

Globalization from the Lao Hinterlands

“Globalization” is only the most recent buzzword to describe the spread of ideas and material goods worldwide. Whether one personally considers globalization to be boon or bane, it is nonetheless a reality that affects almost […]

Issue 2: Disaster and Rehabilitation

Review— Borneo 2000: Environment, Conservation and Land

Borneo 2000: Environment, Conservation and LandMichael Leigh, editor Kuching / Universiti Malaysia Sarawak / 2000 These proceedings of the sixth biennial Borneo Research Conference of July 2000, one of four volumes, were compiled and published prior […]

Issue 2: Disaster and Rehabilitation

Film Review—“Bendum: In the Heart of Mindanao”

“Bendum: In the Heart of Mindanao”Anthony CollinsColor. English. 29 min. IE Film and Video Company, 2001Available from Documentary Educational Resources www.der.org Documentary film audiences are generally people concerned with a particular issue or a specific place where […]