1 Commodification of Nature on the Plantation Frontier

Noboru Ishikawa and Ryoji Soda

Part I Landscape, Culture and History

2 Geomorphological Landscapes of Borneo and Riverine Society of the Kemena Catchment, Sarawak

Jason Hon and Hiromitsu Samejima

4 Trend Analysis of Rainfall Characteristics in the Kemena and Tatau River Basins, Sarawak

Osamu Kozan

5 Multiethnic Society of Northwest Borneo: An Ethnographic Analysis

Yumi Kato, Jayl Langub, Abdul Rashid Abdullah, Hiromitsu Samejima, Ryoji Soda, Motomitsu Uchibori, Katsumi Okuno and Noboru Ishikawa

6 Commodified Frontier: Jungle Produce Trade and Kemena Basin Society in History

Mayumi Ishikawa and Noboru Ishikawa

7 The History of Local Communities: Migration, Kin Relations and Ethnicity

Jayl Langub

Part II Inflection Points of Nature

8 Diversity of Medium- to Large-sized Ground-dwelling Mammals and Terrestrial Birds in Sarawak

Hiromitsu Samejima and Jason Hon

9 Species Composition and Use of Natural Salt Licks by Wildlife Inside a Production Forest Environment in Central Sarawak

Jason Hon, Shozo Shibata and Hiromitsu Samejima

10 Above-Ground Biomass and Tree Species Diversity in Anap Sustainable Development Unit, Sarawak

Hiromitsu Samejima, Malcom Demies, Miyako Koizumi and Shogoro Fujiki

11 Influence of Herbicide Use in Oil Palm Plantations on Stream Water Chemistry in Sarawak

Naoko Tokuchi, Hiromitsu Samejima, Jason Hon and Keitaro Fukushima

12 Spatial Variations in Dissolved and Particulate Organic Carbon in the Kemena and Tatau Rivers, Sarawak

Keitaro Fukushima, Naoko Tokuchi, Hiromitsu Samejima, Jason Hon and Yuichi Kano

13 Stream Fish Biodiversity and the Effects of Plantations in the Bintulu Region, Sarawak

Yuichi Kano, Jason Hon, Mohd Khairulazman Sulaiman, Mitsuhiro Aizu, Koji Noshita and Hiromitsu Samejima

Part III Plantations as Social Complexes and Infrastructure

14 The Effects of Landscape and Livelihood Transitions on Hunting Activity in Sarawak

Yumi Kato and Hiromitsu Sam
About the Author:

Noboru Ishikawa is a professor of anthropology at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He has conducted fieldwork in Sarawak and West Kalimantan over the past two decades, exploring the construction of national space in the borderland, highland-lowland relations, commodification of natural resource and labour, and the relationship between nature and non-nature. His publications include: Between frontiers: nation and identity in a Southeast Asian borderland (2010), and the edited volumes Transborder governance of forests, rivers and seas (2010) and Flows and movements in Southeast Asia: new approaches to transnationalism (2011).

Ryoji Soda is a professor in geography at the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University, Japan. He has conducted field research in Sarawak and other Asian countries focusing on human mobility of ethnic minorities. His recent interest is in human-nature interactions and environmental humanities. His publications include: People on the move: rural-urban interactions in Sarawak (2007); The diversity of small-scale oil palm cultivation in Sarawak, Malaysia. The Geographical Journal 182 (2015); and Culture and acceptance of disasters: supernatural factors as an explanation of riverbank erosion. Ngingit 9 (2017).