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Bringing together case studies from across mainland Southeast Asia and the Island Pacific an expert team of international contributors reveal how communities at the periphery take charge of their lives champion the virtues of their own local systems of production and consumption and engage in the complexities of new structures of development that demand a response to the vacillations of global politics economy and society. Inherent in this is the recognition that 'development' as we have come to know it is far from over. Each chapter emphasizes the growing recognition that ecological and environmental issues are key to any understanding and analysis of structures of sustainable development.