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Article: Environment and Development in the Straits of Malacca.(Review)
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- Contemporary Southeast Asia
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- December 1, 2000
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Environment and Development in the Straits of Malacca. By Mark Cleary and Goh Kim Chuan. London: Routledge, 2000. 2l4pp.
This study of the Straits of Malacca and the countries or parts of countries that abut on it invokes Fernard Braudel's Mediterranean: it "has no unity, but that created by the movements of men, the relationships they imply and the routes they follow ... an immense network of regular and causal connections, the life-giving bloodstream of the region" (p. 2). "It is this notion of unity through movement and causal flows of goods, ideas and peoples", the authors tell us, "that underlies our own conception of the Straits" (p. 2).
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