Ten villages and surrounding farmland have already been wiped from the map for a 50 sq.km airport and surrounding 'aeropolis' or airport city in West Java, Indonesia, writes Rose Bridger. And while investors are offered an 'attractive incentives plan', villagers are subject to fierce state repression and brutality. Now only a single village remains standing, but residents continue to resist eviction and demand an end to the project.
… Indonesia: Villagers resist eviction for 50 … their land Rose Bridger | 5th April 2017 News Indonesia Aviation Development The Land … 'aeropolis' or airport city in West Java, Indonesia, writes Rose Bridger. And while …
Governments and corporations are driving a global wave of ecologically disastrous airport-centered mega-projects each destroying as much of 100 sq.km of farmland and forests - sucking water, resources and economic activity from surrounding areas, excluding host communities and locking in high-carbon infrastructure for decades to come.
… investors. Megalomaniacal megaprojects from Indonesia to Istanbul In terms of scale and … built on a former palm plantation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra is to be … in the project from 26% to 32.2%. Lion Air, Indonesia's largest privately run airline, has …
The story of deforestation is also the story of the globalisation.
… Similar developments were underway in Indonesia and Malaysia: tropical rainforests … has been razed to the ground. In Malaysia and Indonesia, where the primary reason for …
Communities on Jeju, South Korea's 'island of peace', are resisting a second airport that's threatening the island's farming, nature, culture and way of life, writes Rose Bridger. Linked mega-projects include an 'Air City' of shopping malls, hotels and offices, plus high-speed transport corridors, luxury resorts, casinos, theme parks and golf courses - all catering to wealthy outsiders.
… (Andhra Pradesh, India), Kulon Progo (Indonesia), Kilimajaro (Tanzania) and …
How pre-industrial societies and cultures mesh together with their host environments.
… those of forest people in Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines or Papua New … but also in India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brazil. The Chagga home gardens …