THE INDIAN OCEAN: EXPLOITABLE MINERAL AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES

By ABIGAIL MOORE

CONTENTS 1 BORDERING ON DANGER: AN INTRODUCTION 2 REVISITING SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY WITH GEOLOGY: SOME DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES OF A DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENT 3 ‘THE SEA BECOMES MULBERRY FIELDS AND MULBERRY FIELDS BECOME THE SEA’: DIKES IN THE EASTERN RED RIVER DELTA, C 200 BCE TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CE 5 PHILIPPINE TYPHOONS SINCE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 6 BUSH? RE IN MADAGASCAR: NATURAL HAZARD, USEFUL TOOL, AND CHANGE AGENT 8 STORM OVER SAN ISIDRO: REPEATED ‘DISASTERS’ AND CIVIC COMMUNITY CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILIPPINES 10 CYCLONES, DROUGHT, AND SLAVERY: ENVIRONMENT AND ENSLAVEMENT IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN, 1870S TO 1920S