ARI Working Paper Series
WPS 237 Filling in the Marginal Lands: Population Deconcentration in Southeast Asia, 1960s-2000s
| Author | : | PHAM Thanh Hai & Rodolphe De KONINCK |
| Publication Date | : | Sep / 2015 |
| Publisher | : | Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore |
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During and shortly after the colonial period, in their writings on Southeast Asia a number of geographers and social scientists – including Dumont (1935), Gourou (1936 and 1953), Robequain (1946 and 1958), Dobby (1960), Geertz (1963), Burling (1965), Fisher (1966) and Spencer (1966) – emphasized the disequilibrium in population distribution throughout most of the region, pointing out the high densities in several lowland areas and the generally low densities in marginal uplands.