Assignments:
Preparation for Guests (also posted under "Guest Speakers" noted as PREPARATION)
1. None.
2. Submit a written review of one article following the instructions provided by the instructor. Attach your reviews below; hard copies will not be accepted. Be sure to upload your articles (not just links). The evaluation rubric has also been posted.
[tli] Chamratpan, Seewapong and Sam-ang Homchuen. 2005. "Ethnobotany in Upper Northeastern Thailand". Acta Horticulturae 675 (Proc. WOCMAP III, Vol. 1: Bioprospecting & Ethnopharmacology): 67-74.
Review of above article
[tli]
[ln] Keskinen, M. (2008). Water resources development and impacts assessment in the Mekong Basin: Which way to go?. Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2008.
Review of this article
[ln]
[mr] Delang, C. 2007. Ecological Succession of Usable Plants in an Eleven-Year Fallow Cycle in Northern Lao P.D.R. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 5: 331-350.
Review of this article
[mr]
Yimyam, Narit, Rerkasem, Kanok, Rerkasem, Benjavan. (2003) Fallow Enrichment With Pada (Macaranga denticulata (BI.) Muel. Arg.) Trees in Rotational Shifting Cultivation in Northern Thailand. Agroforestry Systems. 57: 79-86.
review attached [arb]
[fig] McNeely, J.A. 2004. Nature vs. Nurture: managing relationships between forests, agroforestry, and wild biodiversity.
Agroforestry Systems. 61(1):155-165.
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3. Work on organization of conference.
[mr] PLEASE POST YOUR FULL NAME AND THE TITLE OF YOUR POSTER OR TALK:
Matt Reeder -- Changing Foods and Trade Goods in Rural Northern Laos
Safia Slater -- Magnitude of Arsenic Pollution in the Mekong
Teresa Ingalls- Arboriculture in Prehistoric Mainland Southeast Asia Foraging
Lien Nguyen - Impacts of Human Activities to Sustainable Aquatic Resources in Cambodia
John Thompson - Conflict Poppies: International Drug Policy and Indigenous Rights of Hill Tribe villagers in the Golden Triangle
Nattha Chuenwattana - Plant and Hospital Concept from Ancient Khmer Empire during Jayavarman 7th‘s Reign from Inscription and a Comparative Study from Kui People from Northeastern Thailand.
Adam Brown -- Forest cover and Eco-Cultural Nich Use by the Puthai
Fiona Greatbanks-- Thailand Sans Capsicum
Han Lau - Crisis? What Crisis?
4. As a way to conclude the first half of this course, all of you are now tasked to provide a concluding summary of Mekong Ethnobotany and Conservation during class on Thursday. Each of you will choose one topic from below and work together to provide a coherent oral summary.
Topics
On Thursday, you will be given 25 minutes to discuss among yourselves to prepare for the oral summary. This period of time is really for you to tie up some "loose ends". Think of this exercise as a way to prepare yourselves to be comfortable talking to researchers working in Southeast Asia, and as a way to find out how ready you are. Hence, the short notice of this assignment. Good luck and this message will not self-destruct.