Malaya’s greatest menace? Slow-onset disaster and the muddy politics of British Malaya, c. 1900–50

Malaya’s greatest menace? Slow-onset disaster and the muddy politics of British Malaya, c. 1900–50

In 1948, a chilling statement from British Malaya’s Director of Agriculture, F. Burnett, made headline news. According to Burnett, unchecked soil erosion across hillside Malaya would soon render the country’s precious agricultural land infertile. Erosion had worsened considerably after the 1880s due...

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Main Author: WILLIAMSON, Fiona
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
Subjects:
History
disasters
soil erosion
Malaya
Environmental Sciences
Physical and Environmental Geography
Place and Environment
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research_smu/15
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=soss_research_smu
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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