Win, N: Sustainable Development?

This book proposes that cultural ecological approach is used in carrying out the research on livelihood ecologies of local people living in Gangaw Township. It is now widely accepted that the development activities are associated with the natural environment: roads construction, railway construction, government dam and hand-made dams in this township disturb the ecosystem in diverse ways. The five study villages are studied and data collection methods include the of ethnographic research. It argues that the insatiable demands of state military reign for surplus makes these communities more ecologically destructive than other forms of social organization. This book also show how these local people take part in the timber industry. At this moment, extensive systems of agriculture in the forest management by creating the hand-make dams in which the local people play a part by drawing on their indigenous knowledge of the forest. Therefore, it also analyses the livelihood ecologies of the local people and how they understand their environment and how they share their knowledge of the environment as well as how the positive aspect of indigenous knowledge should be maintained.