Entangled Environments in AsiaMartina Padmanabhan

ASIEN – Nr. 160/161 (2021) pp. 7–16

For a long time, Asia attracted the European gaze and interest through its abundant and seemingly endless endowment with natural goods like timber, plants and minerals. Meanwhile, one of the most pressing issues of our time is to how reconcile the exploitation of natural and biological resources with socioecological needs. How to cultivate, appreciate and extract existing biodiversity and biomass without causing unintended social and environmental problems is a question demanding critical analysis…