1. Between global and local : the contest for development / Eric Waddell and John Connell -- 2. Volcanic eruption as metaphor of social integration : a political ecological study of Mount Merapi, Central Java / Michael R. Dove -- 3. Pacific island rural development : challenges and prospects in Kiribati / Frank R. Thomas and Kautoa Tonganibeia -- 4. Agricultural landscapes of Kadavu : persistence and change on the Fijian periphery / Robert Kuhlken -- 5. Tree crops and the cultivated landscapes of the southwest Pacific / Jean Kennedy and William Clarke -- 6. Land reform and the state in Vietnam's northwestern mountains / Thomas Sikor -- 7. Seeds of discontent : oil palm and the changing production strategies among smallholders in Papua New Guinea / George N. Curry and Gina Koczberski -- 8. Holding on to modernity? Siwai, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea / John Connell -- 9. Oil palm expansion in Sarawak : lessons learned by a latecomer? / Niels Fold and Tina Svan Hansen -- 10. Can Indonesia's complex agroforests survive globalisation and decentralisation? Sanggau District, West Kalimantan / Lesley Potter and Simon Badcock -- 11. Seeing 'water blindness' : water control in agricultural intensification and environmental change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam / Fiona Miller -- 12. Rethinking watershed science : lessons from Thailand / Tim Forsyth -- 13. Civil society and interdependencies : towards a regional political ecology of Mekong development / Philip Hirsch.