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Marine Spatial Planning and the loss of traditional power in Fiji and the Cook Islands 海洋空间规划与斐济和库克群岛传统权力的丧失

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12564

Roxane de Waegh, Nathaniel Wilson, Lucas Watt

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Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth‐century Calcutta. Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2022, pp. xiv + 305. ISBN 978‐1‐009‐10011‐3 (hbk). 运动中的街道：二十世纪加尔各答基础设施、财产和政治文化的形成》。Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay 著。剑桥大学出版社，英国剑桥，2022 年，第 xiv + 305 页。ISBN 978-1-009-10011-3 (hbk).

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12563

Kamalika Banerjee

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Regional evidence of environmental mobility in Southeast Asia: A systematic review of the empirical evidence 东南亚环境流动性的区域证据：对经验证据的系统审查

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12562

Mongkon Thongchaithanawut, Marion Borderon, Patrick Sakdapolrak

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Suburban dynamics: A study of migration and governance in suburban Kolkata 郊区动态：加尔各答郊区移民与治理研究

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12560

Riya Bhattacharya, Debarshi Guin

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Feeling through ‘incomplete’ spiritual‐space‐times 感受 "不完整 "的精神空间时间

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12561

Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye

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Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity. JelleJ.P. Wouters (ed). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2022, pp. xi + 413. ISBN 978‐0‐192‐86346‐1 (hbk). 印度东北部的乡土政治：民主、种族和土著性》。JelleJ.P. Wouters (ed).牛津大学出版社，英国牛津，2022 年，第 xi + 413 页。ISBN 978-0-192-86346-1 (hbk).

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12556

Balawansuk Lynrah

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Multivocal responses to conservation in Maluku province, Indonesia: Biocultural diversity, protest and management in a zone of ecological transition 印度尼西亚马鲁古省对保护工作的多方响应：生态过渡区的生物文化多样性、抗议和管理

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12554

Hermien L. Soselisa, Roy Ellen

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Arc of the Journeyman: Afghan Migrants in England. NicholaKhan. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis MN, USA, 2021, pp. x + 293. ISBN 978‐1‐517‐90962‐8 (pbk). 工匠之弧》：英国的阿富汗移民。尼古拉-汉。明尼苏达大学出版社，美国明尼阿波利斯，2021 年，第 x + 293 页。ISBN 978-1-517-90962-8 (pbk).

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12559

Chayanika Saxena

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Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia. Helen TingM.H.andDonald L.Horowitz(eds). NIAS Press, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023, pp. xiii + 292. ISBN 978‐8‐776‐94321‐9 (pbk). 马来西亚的选举改革与民主》。Helen TingM.H.andDonald L.Horowitz（eds）。NIAS Press, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023, pp.ISBN 978-8-776-94321-9 (pbk).

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12558

Francis E. Hutchinson

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Exploring the utility of the Enhanced Vegetation Index as rainfall and agricultural proxy in a Caribbean case study event 在加勒比案例研究活动中探索将增强植被指数作为降雨量和农业代理变量的实用性

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12553

Sarah F. Buckland

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