Professor Harold Brookfield FBA

Cultural and political ecology, with principal specialization on agrarian change in developing countries; comparative regional study of the dynamics of people-environment interaction in the Pacific and southeast Asia
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2009
Year of birth
1926
Year of death
2022
Subjects
Anthropology

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Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow

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