<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Suraswadi, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DE Thomas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pragtong, K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Preechapanya, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Weyerhaeuser, H.</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">asb@cgiar.org</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Northern Thailand: Changing Smallholder Land-Use Patterns.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Slash and Burn: The Search for Alternatives.</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ASB</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Climate Change</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">land use</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thailand</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.asb.cgiar.org/PDFwebdocs/Northern_Thailand_Smallholder_Pattern.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Columbia University Press</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New York, USA</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">30</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Alternatives to Slash and Burn (asb) research program in northern Thailand seeks to understand land use change in the mountainous mainland Southeast Asia (mmsea) ecoregion and to develop technologies and policies that can improve land use management and human welfare in the region. The mmsea includes the large region of hill and mountain terrain
that joins the Himalayan mountains in southwestern China and extends through northern portions of Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos, to Vietnam in the east (figure 16.1). Several major river systems flow through or have headwaters in this region, also long known for its diverse ethnic composition and complex mosaic patterns of traditional land use that include shifting cultivation. Because this region also includes most of what remains of mainland Southeast Asia’s rapidly dwindling forest resources, it is the focus of increasing environmental concern related to the use and management of surface water and biodiversity and to global climate change. </style></abstract><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">16</style></section></record></records></xml>