Asian Geographic2017

No. 123 • Issue 1/

PICTURESQUE

20 Salt

BY MOHAMMAD RAKIBUL HASSAN

SCIEnCE

14 A Habitat for Humanity

BY YD BAR-NESS

REflECTIonS

30 Walk the Talk

REvEalEd

32 Here Comes the Sun

CUlTURE

34 Vanishing Roots

In Cambodia, the indigenous Kuy

community is organising itself to

preserve its roots, traditions, and

protect the land to which it belongs

BY THE RUOM COLLECTIVE

hERITagE

48 The Temple in the Sea

A Buddhist temple in Thailand

weathers the destruction caused by

rising water levels. For one monk, it’s

sink or swim

BY BRENT LEWIN

on aSSIgnmEnT

54 They Call It Happyland

In Manila, poor communities rely

on the city’s abundant supply of

waste to survive, living in – and

depending on – squalor

BY JOE HENLEY, PAUL RATJE

EnvIRonmEnT

62 The Buzzkill

Pesticides, diseases and global

warming are plunging the honeybee

population into decline. Farmers in

China are doing the work of bees

BY DAVE GOULSON

CUlTURE

42 Mind the Gap

Food security and women farmers

BY TAMARA NAIR

EnvIRonmEnT

76 Leading the Charge

Nepal’s renewable energy initiatives

BY MICHAEL NORTHROP, BIKASH PANDEY

SCIEnCE

86 The Lungs of the Earth

Climate change and our liquid planet

BY DR EMMA CAMP

Chairman

LIM Geok Khoon

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Contributors

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Aaron GEKOSKI, Dave GOULSON, Mohammad HASAN,

Joe HENLEY, Sophie IBBOTSON, Clothilde LE COZ,

Brent LEWIN, Tamara NAIR , Michael NORTHRUP,

Bikash PANDEY, Vidar Tancred PAULSRUD,

Antoine RAAB, Paul RATJE, Bart W. ÉDES,

Gilbert WOOLLEY

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Contents

PaSSPoRT

10 4 Leaving more than Footprints

BY SOPHIE IBBOTSON

mEmoRIES

10 2 Weathering the Storms

IMAGE © ANTOINE RAAB/RUOM

climate change issue