Southeast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. Environmental
change natural resource exploitation as well as global climate change increasingly threaten
people's livelihoods. Environmentally-based uncertainties foster a high level of knowledge
uncertainty. This poses a constantly growing threat to agricultural production. Vulnerable
communities with a low degree of resilience are most severely affected. But local communities
have abilities to innovate and develop locally embedded coping strategies. The contributors of
this volume are most interested in environmental change that fosters knowledge uncertainties.
Regions discussed include the Mekong Delta in Vietnam Moluccas Central Kalimantan West
Sumatra and South Sulawesi in Indonesia and Tangail Region in Bangladesh.
