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In Southeast Asia there has been much movement of people, sponsored or at least encouraged by their national government, to form new agricultural settlements away from their home area. The new area chosen and prepared by that government as a focus of development is always in an otherwise sparsely populated and relatively undeveloped region. Many such ‘new’ areas, almost by definition, are close or immediately adjacent to forests, and throughout the region loss of forests is one of the major environmental impacts of new settlement programmes.
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Collins, N.M., Sayer, J.A., Whitmore, T.C. (1991). Agricultural Settlement Schemes. In: Collins, N.M., Sayer, J.A., Whitmore, T.C. (eds) The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests Asia and the Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12030-7_5
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