The Minangkabau villages near the ancient Penarikan land-portage may have modernised in the past two decades, but forest products remain an important source of local economy. RASIDAH HASHIM looks at forest use here.
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N. Rasidah Hashim
Currently Im writing up a PhD thesis in Geography at the Geography Dept, University of Cambridge. Hoping to finish it by end of this year. I have a wide-ranging interest in secondary forests, landscape ecology and heritage conservation. Im a staff-member of Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor.... more inside »








