Citation

Gros S. Himalaya 2014; 34(2): 81-96.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014)

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Abstract

Economic development and environmental protection have often proved to be conflicting driving forces behind change in northwest Yunnan province, China. In 2003, the Sloping Land Conversion Program brought an end to traditional shifting cultivation in the Dulong valley-part of the Gaoligong Mountain Nature Reserve, Gongshan County- and is now threatening Drung people's livelihood nd culture while further increasing villagers' ependence on state subsidies. This paper addresses the implementation of this programand the difficulties encountered by locals in relation to environmental protection and economic development issues. It describes the specificities of swidden cultivation and explores aspects of human-environment relatedness in the Dulong Valley.

Language: en

Keywords

Suicide; China; Development; indigenous population; environmental protection; economic development; Yunnan; rice; nature-society relations; Biodiversity; Celastraceae; Dulong (Drung Trung T'rung); Dulong Valley; Gaoligong Mountain Nature Reserve; Livelihood; shifting cultivation; Sloping Land Conversion Program; subsidy system; Swidden agriculture