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Explaining the Diversity of Southeast Asian Shrimp Aquaculture
Author(s) -
HALL DEREK
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of agrarian change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.63
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1471-0366
pISSN - 1471-0358
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2004.00081.x
Subject(s) - shrimp , shrimp farming , agriculture , aquaculture , diversity (politics) , politics , geography , fishery , economy , development economics , economics , political science , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , law , archaeology
Despite the large amount of academic attention that Southeast Asian shrimp farming has received since the 1980s, few attempts have been made to explain the remarkable variation in the industry's organization across countries and localities. This paper compares the development of shrimp farming in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, arguing that differences can be traced to variations in the initial conditions under which shrimp farming was established, the different ways that national aquacultures are embedded in the regional political economy and the ways in which different countries have responded to the characteristic environmental problems the sector causes itself.