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A title in the ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES series in which physical and social geography is combined with history, and in particular colonial and post-colonial links to other countries. Includes case studies and real-life examples. Suitable for the National Curriculum Key Stage 3. ... Read more

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Malaysia is one of the world's most biologically diverse regions, but in recent years vast tracts of its forests have been cleared or degraded, with serious human and environmental consequences. Vanishing Rain Forests explores four closely related themes: first it describes the country's forests and the remarkable abundance and diversity of their flora and fauna; secondly, it outlines the processes and policies by which human activity has altered these forests since the early nineteenth century; thirdly, it examines some of the environmental, biological, and cultural consequences of such changes both past and present; and finally, it looks at what has been done to conserve the region's natural wealth and recommends changes that could put Malaysia on the path to a more sustainable future. Throughout the book, the need for a historical perspective is underscored. Environmentalists, biogeographers, botanists and others will find this monograph a cogent assessment of the challenges currently facing rain forest ecology. ... Read more

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In light of the Malaysian experience during the Asian financial crisis, this book, now available in paperback, examines the role of international capital mobility in making countries susceptible to financial crises and the use of capital controls as a crisis management tool. Malaysia provides an interesting case study of this subject given its significant capital market liberalization prior to the onset of the crisis, and its fundamental shift in crisis management policy in September 1998.

The prime focus of the book is on Malaysia’s radical policy decision to pursue an independent recovery path, cut off from world markets by a system of capital control, as a viable alternative to the conventional market-centered approach. The analysis suggests that, against the initial dire predictions of many economists, the capital controls have actually played a crucial supportive role in crisis management. Whether the controls have played a special role in delivering a superior recovery outcome in Malaysia compared to IMF-program countries remains a point of contention. However, there is strong evidence to suggest that this pragmatic policy choice was instrumental in achieving recovery, while minimizing potential economic disruption and related social costs. ... Read more

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This is the first publication of its kind to feature and illustrate both plants and animals that are endangered and endemic to the Tasek Bera Ramsar site - a Wetland site of International Importance of Malaysia. In all, 31 species of fauna and 18 species of flora are described in detail and illustrated in colour photographs. It also explains why the need for conservation of this Wetland's flora and fauna is so crucial. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Political Geography, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Work drawing upon Michel Foucault's analyses of governmental rationalities has extended understandings of the 'political'. The geography of this domain, however, has remained largely intact in the governmentality literature. In this paper, we contribute to work which unsettles conceptions of national scale society as a political unity across and within which government is territorialized. We examine Cyberjaya, an 'intelligent city' in Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor, as part of a distinct governmental zone oriented to the nurturing of 'intelligent' subjects for a globally-oriented information economy. What the anthropologist Aihwa Ong terms the 'cybercorridor' zone is one of a series of differentiated sites and spaces of government which reconfigure existing communal and spatial division in postcolonial Malaysia. As such, while exemplifying non-national territorializations of government, the Malaysian case also questions the extent to which these are novel to an era of globalization. Beyond the 'advanced liberal' contexts which have been the main focus of the governmentality literature - and from where the 'death of the social' has been diagnosed - governmental fragmentation often precedes the rise of languages and lenses of globalization. ... Read more

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Malaysia is a land of remote rainforests, mangrove swamps, mountains and coastal plains. Find out how Malaysia has developed rapidly over the last ten years, using industries old and new to produce one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Meet some of the very different people that live in Malaysia today, including Malay, Chinese, Tamil and indigenous groups, and read their own accounts about their lives, the problems they face and their hopes for the future. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Focus on Geography, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 5680 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Digital aspirations: Malaysia and the multimedia super corridor.
Author: Josh Lepawsky
Publication: Focus on Geography (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 48Issue: 3Page: 10(9)

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Malaysia," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Malaysia in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Malaysia when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Malaysia, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Malaysia," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Malaysia in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Malaysia when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Malaysia, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Malaysia," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Malaysia in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Malaysia when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Malaysia, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more