Paradise contested: culture, politics and changing land and water use in Bali

The small Indonesian island of Bali is widely known as a global tourist destination. According to glossy tourist brochures the island is nothing less than a paradise. However, the flipside of this paradisiacal image is its social and environmental problems and conflicts, related to growing environmental pressures. Bali is far from unique: many regions all over the world experience similar processes of change, whether tourism-driven or related to other processes. Urbanisation and industrialisation, for instance, may drive conversion of land and transfers of water away from agricultural to other uses