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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Araral, Eduardo K. |
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Conference:
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Workshop on the Workshop 4 |
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Location:
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Indiana University Bloomington |
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Conf. Date:
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June 3-6, 2009 |
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Date:
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2009 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1947
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Sector:
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Social Organization
Agriculture |
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Region:
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East Asia |
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Subject(s):
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institutional analysis
indigenous knowledge
rice
agriculture
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Abstract:
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From Introduction:
"The phenomenon of collapsed societies raises an interesting question: why have these societies failed to produce a sufficient response to their circumstances? This question has prompted other scholars--for example Diamond (2005) - to explain how some societies survived in difficult environments and persist overtime, 1,100 years in the case of Icelanders, 3,200 years in the case of Tonga and some 7,000 years in the case of New Guinea Highlands.
"This paper examines the case of the 2000 year old Ifugao rice terraces in the Philippines - a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a globally important agricultural heritage site by the Food and Agriculture Organization - to explain, using the theoretical lenses of institutional analysis, why they have remained robust overtime."
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