A Reassessment of Subarctic and Semi-arid Frontier Agriculture (1992-1996)

	In the present century geographers and other scholars has shown
	considerable interest in various types of pioneer frontier
	agriculture. These were regarded as extensions of the oecumene
	beyond easily cultivable land into regions posing increasingly 
	serious environmental and other problems. Until quite recently new
	land sellement has been regarded as one of a number of responses to
	population pressures, especially in the third world. Outside the
	tropics farming opportunities have been sought in the subarctic,
	semi-arid regions and at greater altitudes. There have been many
	failures but also some noteworthy successes although often at great
	financial and personal cost. An attempt will be made in this study
	of reassess current agricultural progress in a number of carefully 
	selected frontier regions or subregions in subarctic Canada and
	Siberia and in arid/semi-arid Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia.

	Denis P. Ditzgerald and others	 	


Basic Foods, Nutrition and Diet in Rural Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
(1990-1994)

	In the oast decade or so in South East Asian countries, particularly
	those in which substantial improvements have occurred in living
	standards in rural areas, there has been increasingly concern with
	nutrition and diet and their relationships with health and a range
	of factors and ramifications all relating, directly or indirectly, to
	social and economic progress. Even in the poorer Malaysia, as well as
	indeed in urban centres, more attention is being paid to diet 
	redressal programs. The present study is an attempt basically to 
	assess the nutritional value of rural diets in selected regions of
	Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, explore economic progress, and
	propose improvements in food patterns which may be readily
	accommodated within current agricultural practices and crop regimes.
	
	Denis P. Fitzgerald and others


Rent Control and Housing Redevelopment in New York's China-Town (1988-1989)

	New York's Chinatown, an old neighbourhood in the core of an 
	American city. It argues that although rent control is enforced with
	good intentions, the policy is ubject to human manipulation. As a 
	result of people's manipulative behaviour, rent control can generate
	undersirable effects. This project traces the way that people in
	New York's Chinatown have adapted to rent control laws and discusses
	both the intended and unintended consequences of such laws on the
	housing conditions in inner city neighbourhoods.
	
	Dr. Chow Chun Shing
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