https://www-jstor-org.hal.weber.edu/stable/pdf/4254828.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A6569735131554ba7cf2e7995ff3a19c9 will inform me about the Akha cultures in Northern Thailand and how they utilize medicinal plants and why those are significant to their communities
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1295230.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Addb7781c11df8bdcb498574f625885bb
- Environmental degradation/destruction in Southeast Asia
- Politics of chemical warfare (war crimes)
The Temperature of Southeast Asian Botany
Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia by Karl L. Hutterer, A. Terry Rambo, and George Lovelace
- "They deal with hunting-gathering populations as well as peasants operating within contemporary nation-states, and they are the work of natural scientists, social scientists, and humanists of Western and Asian origin."
https://rainforests.mongabay.com/deforestation/archive/Viet_Nam.htm
- Deforestation Statistics for Vietnam
- Primary/Total Tree Cover Loss - 42%
Environment use from one side and being eliminated by the other side
http://www2.malignani.ud.it/WebEnis/theWebWeWant/vietnam.html
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/vietnam-war-and-environment
https://saigoneer.com/saigon-culture/17206-the-harrowing-history-of-vietnam-s-rubber-plantations
- Pull Quotes
- "Rubber plantations provide evidence of some of the worst abuses of natives at the hands of the French, while later serving numerous purposes for a range of private and public actors. Investigating their complex history and ecological footprint helps articulate the complex interplay between commodities, exploitation and development, as well as man and nature."
- "In 1897, a French pharmacist on a mission to Java sent Hevea seeds to the Saigon Botanical Garden, which later became the Saigon Zoo. There, a number of colonial scientists experimented with it alongside other plants while the first plantations were being introduced. In line with the thinking of the time, colonial officials had little interest in researching or developing native plants such as fruit and rice that locals were proficient in harvesting, and instead looked to use land for foreign botanicals. An ambitious, disjointed and often inefficient scientific approach was taken to exploring the best ways to exploit rubber for profit in and around Saigon."
- "Without rubber, you could not enjoy the life you have now. From traveling in a car and typing on a computer to practicing safe sex and undergoing a medical operation, the commodity is essential for experiencing the world as you know it. If production conditions and environmental impacts have drastically improved since the 19th and 20th centuries, we could possibly justify the continued use of rubber, as long as we acknowledge those who suffered in the past to make that possible. That, sadly, is not reality."
https://edgeeffects.net/michitake-aso-rubber-plantations/
How Rubber Plantations Reshaped Vietnam