Harold Brookfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 158157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold Brookfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold |
| FAMILY NAME | Brookfield |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKFIELD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 82 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 545 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 81 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Land Degradation and Society
Acknowledges that the reasons why land management can fail are extremely varied, and must include a thorough understanding of the changing natural resource base itself, the human response to this, and broader changes in society, of which land managers are a part. Four chapters provide a method of analyzing the problems of management and degradation. They focus particularly on the decision making environment of the land users and managers themselv…
Land Degradation and Society
Scott and Others on History in The Southeast Asian Uplands: A Review Essay
James Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed is likely to rival Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma for the distinction of being the most influential title on history and society in the uplands of Southeast Asia. Scott's sustained emphasis on hostile highland/lowland relations through historical time is questioned. It is suggested that the internal dynamics of upland societies, which have a large ethnographic literature, need also to synth…
Composite farming systems in an era of change: Nagaland, Northeast India
Composite farming systems, first clearly identified by Rambo, are those in which radically different technologies are found together in a single farming complex. Data from diaries kept by groups of farming families in two Angami Naga villages in northeast India, Khonoma and smaller Tsiesema, detailing inputs into and outputs from wet-rice terraces and jhum (swidden) fields in the years 2000 and 2001, are presented and discussed to detail the work…
Smallholder rubber plantation expansion and its impact on local livelihoods, land use and agrobiodiversity, a case study from Daka, Xishuangbanna, southwestern China
Crop inventory, botanical surveys, and questionnaire investigations of 60% of households in Daka from 1998 to 2004 (a Hani nationality village in the mountainous region of Xishuangbanna) were undertaken. We focused on virtual extinction of agrobiodiversity in smallholder rubber plantations, which have improved smallholder livelihoods but have affected land-use strategies. Income per capita has increased from US$128.3 in 1998 to US$561.7 in 2004 b…
Academics among farmers: Linking intervention to research
Family Farms Are Still Around: Time to Invert the Old Agrarian Question
Family farming is far from dead, in either the developed or developing countries. Family farms need to be qualitatively defined, with both family management and substantial labour input being central elements. The 'agrarian question' has been largely about their disappearance and replacement by capitalist farms, or subsumption by agribusiness, but they have competed successfully with capitalist farms for a long period. In modern times, the econom…
Writing about modern rural Africa: An essay around a review
American geography and one non-American geographer
Exploring Agrodiversity
Small farmers are often viewed as engaging in wasteful practices that wreak ecological havoc. Exploring Agrodiversity sets the record straight: Small farmers are in fact ingenious and inventive and engage in a diverse range of land-management strategies, many of them resourcefully geared toward conserving resources, especially soil. They have shown considerable resilience in the face of major onslaughts against their way of life by outsiders and …
Intensification, and Alternative Approaches to Agricultural Change
The context of the intensification debate is widened by calling attention to two aspects that have been insufficiently taken into account in the large post‐Boserup literature. These are farmers' use of capital investment of all forms, and the importance of organisational skills, as distinct from the technical skills on which the literature has concentrated. It is suggested that diversification of production and livelihood opportunities, investmen…
Biodiversity conservation through agrodiversity
Environmental damage: Distinguishing human from geophysical causes
During the past two decades it has become increasingly common to attribute “naturala” disasters and other damaging environmental events to proximate or underlying causes that are socially produced. Through an examination of three cases, two of them historical, this paper demonstrates that underlying causes within the geophysical domain are also important. Few types of environmental damage or disaster stem from unalloyed human causes or geophysica…
Agrodiversity: Definition, description and design
In the Place of the Forest: Environmental and Socio-Economic Transformation in Borneo and the Eastern Malay Peninsula
Classics in human geography revisited: Brookfield, H. 1975: Interdependent development. London: Methuen
In Place of the Forest: Environmental and Socio-Economic Transformation in Borneo and the Eastern Malay Peninsula
South-East Asia's Environmental Future: The Search for Sustainability
Postscript: The ‘population-environment nexus’ and PLEC
Appreciating Agrodiversity: A Look at the Dynamism and Diversity of Indigenous Farming Practices
(1994). Appreciating Agrodiversity: A Look at the Dynamism and Diversity of Indigenous Farming Practices. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development: Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 6-45.
Environmental colonialism’, tropical deforestation, and concerns other than global warming
Research in the Mountains of the Island of New Guinea
This paper summarizes the studies, both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, that have been carried out in the central cordillera of the island of New Guinea, both in the western sector, Irian Jaya which is part of Indonesia, and in the eastern sector which is the nation of Papua New Guinea. The highland valleys between 1,200 and 2,850 m have been inhabited by relatively large populations since prehistoric times. Early studies, beginning in t…
The Use of Unstable Steeplands in the Mountains of Papua New Guinea
Environmental Sustainability with Development: What Prospects for a Research Agenda
Land tenure and transfer in Chimbu, Papua New Guinea: 1958?1984?A study in continuity and change, accommodation and opportunism
Land Degradation and Society
Family Farms Are Still Around: Time to Invert the Old Agrarian Question
Family farming is far from dead, in either the developed or developing countries. Family farms need to be qualitatively defined, with both family management and substantial labour input being central elements. The 'agrarian question' has been largely about their disappearance and replacement by capitalist farms, or subsumption by agribusiness, but they have competed successfully with capitalist farms for a long period. In modern times, the econom…
Local Study and Comparative Method: An Example From Central New Guinea1
Questions on the Human Frontiers of Geography
N reading recent literature produced by human geographers who have carried out empirical research in alien societies, mainly in the tropics, one is drawn to ask a number of questions about human geography as a whole. A difference of approach is apparent between those who have an overtly chorographic purpose, who scarcely ever seek explanations in matters such as human behavior, attitudes and beliefs, social organization, and the characteristics a…
Intensification, and Alternative Approaches to Agricultural Change
The context of the intensification debate is widened by calling attention to two aspects that have been insufficiently taken into account in the large post‐Boserup literature. These are farmers' use of capital investment of all forms, and the importance of organisational skills, as distinct from the technical skills on which the literature has concentrated. It is suggested that diversification of production and livelihood opportunities, investmen…
Interdependent Development
On One Geography and a Third World
Intensification intensified: Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics
Revolution or Evolution in the Prehistory of the New Guinea Highlands: A Seminar Report
In Place of the Forest: Environmental and Socio-Economic Transformation in Borneo and the Eastern Malay Peninsula
Colonialism, Development and Independence: The Case of the Melanesian Islands in the South Pacific
List of figures Preface Note on conventions 1. On colonialism and development 2. Colonial beginnings 3 Diffusion and establishment 4. High noon: Melanesia in a white man's world 5. Tremors from faraway convulsions - 1905-1920 6. The ills of mercantilism 7. Hard times and new beginnings 8. Trauma - 1940-1946 9. The Hasluck period and the new colonialism 10. The advance toward political independence 11. The deepening commercial colonization of Mela…
Third World Development
Interdependent Development
Agrodiversity: Definition, description and design
The Highland Peoples of New Guinea a Study of Distribution and Localization
Iiving between lat. 3?and lat. 70 S., at altitudes ranging from 4300 to nearly ^9000 feet in valleys of the central cordillera of New Guinea, are some 900,000 people of Neolithic culture whose existence has been discovered only in the present century. The central mountains are at almost all points difficult of access from the coast, and it was long believed that there was only a single, continuous range, with? out important intermontane valleys (…
Colonialism, Development and Independence: The Case of the Melanesian Islands in the South Pacific
The Pacific in Transition: Geographical Perspectives on Adaptation and Change
These new essays concern the profound transformation taking place in the island communities and countries of the South Pacific, and examine the processes of adaptation to change. All the contributors write from extensive first-hand experience and research, and the volume as a whole must add significantly to understanding of the Pacific and of the problems of change throughout the Third World. In addition the essays make an important contribution …
Interdependent Development
Pacific Market-Places: A Collection of Essays
Struggle for Land: Agriculture and Group Territories among the Chimbu of the New Guinea Highlands
Postscript: The ‘population-environment nexus’ and PLEC
Pacific Market-Places: A Collection of Essays
Population distribution and labour migration in New Guinea: (A preliminary survey)
(1960). Population distribution and labour migration in New Guinea. Australian Geographer: Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 233-242
Problems of Monoculture and Diversification in a Sugar Island: Mauritius
(1959). Problems of Monoculture and Diversification in a Sugar Island: Mauritius. Economic Geography: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 25-40
Environmental damage: Distinguishing human from geophysical causes
During the past two decades it has become increasingly common to attribute “naturala” disasters and other damaging environmental events to proximate or underlying causes that are socially produced. Through an examination of three cases, two of them historical, this paper demonstrates that underlying causes within the geophysical domain are also important. Few types of environmental damage or disaster stem from unalloyed human causes or geophysica…
Three Sussex Ports, 1850–1950
New Railroad and Port Developments in East and Central Africa
INCE 1945 the central and east territories have undergone an economic revolution. Their raw material exports have increased enormously, and all colonial governments have been concerned to develop their territories in order that they might contribute to the economic recovery of the West. These large developments have severely taxed the transport facilities of the continent, so that further development is inhibited in some areas by difficulties of …
Mauritius: Demographic upsurge and prospect
A brief account is given of the demographic and economic history of Mauritius over the last century, and of the close interaction of these factors, and against this background the current situation is reviewed. A relatively static position of high birth and death rates has given way to one of rapid population increase, due in part to a temporary rise in the birth rate, but more especiall to the virtual eradication of the few diseases which had be…
The Distribution of Racial Groups in Durban: The Background of Apartheid in a South African City
IN THE past seven years the Nationalist government of South Africa has made considerable progress with its program of apartheid legislation, designed to solve the problems of racial pluralism by a policy of separate development of the several groups. Recently the pace of this legislation has quickened, and earlier enactments are being translated into action. The impact of all this is felt chiefly in the cities, to whose problems the bulk of the l…
Chimbu Land and Society
Australian geographers in our overseas contemporaries: 1958
Australian geographers in our overseas contemporaries: 1958." Australian Geographer, 7(4), pp. 165–166
Problems of Monoculture and Diversification in a Sugar Island: Mauritius
(1959). Problems of Monoculture and Diversification in a Sugar Island: Mauritius. Economic Geography: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 25-40
Population distribution and labour migration in New Guinea: (A preliminary survey)
(1960). Population distribution and labour migration in New Guinea. Australian Geographer: Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 233-242
The Highland Peoples of New Guinea a Study of Distribution and Localization
Iiving between lat. 3?and lat. 70 S., at altitudes ranging from 4300 to nearly ^9000 feet in valleys of the central cordillera of New Guinea, are some 900,000 people of Neolithic culture whose existence has been discovered only in the present century. The central mountains are at almost all points difficult of access from the coast, and it was long believed that there was only a single, continuous range, with? out important intermontane valleys (…
Local Study and Comparative Method: An Example From Central New Guinea1
Social Policies and Population Growth in Mauritius
On Training Geographers
Fiji's Indian Migrants
Questions on the Human Frontiers of Geography
N reading recent literature produced by human geographers who have carried out empirical research in alien societies, mainly in the tropics, one is drawn to ask a number of questions about human geography as a whole. A difference of approach is apparent between those who have an overtly chorographic purpose, who scarcely ever seek explanations in matters such as human behavior, attitudes and beliefs, social organization, and the characteristics a…
Struggle for Land: Agriculture and Group Territories among the Chimbu of the New Guinea Highlands
The Economic Development of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea: Report of a Mission Organized by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development at the Request of the Government of the Co…
Color and Race
Revolution or Evolution in the Prehistory of the New Guinea Highlands: A Seminar Report
Pacific Market-Places: A Collection of Essays
Pacific Market Places: A Collection of Essays
Town and country meet and mingle in the urban produce markets of the Pacific region. From here economic forces operate to diffuse new forms of production and organisation throughout the region. These new forms are, however, superimposed on the traditional trading exchanges of the Pacific peoples; full understanding of them requires consideration of the whole social and economic environment, of trading practices and their economic motivation. This…
Pacific Market-Places: A Collection of Essays
Melanesia: An Island World: Review
Intensification and Disintensification in Pacific Agriculture: A Theoretical Approach
Melanesia: A Geographical Interpretation of an Island World
Melanesia: A Geographical Interpretation of an Island World
Geography (61 works) · History (31 works) · Political science (29 works) · Archaeology (23 works) · History (23 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (22 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Ethnology (19 works) · Economics (18 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (16 works)