Constructing durian terroir and geographical indications in Penang,Malaysia

The tropical fruit durian in Southeast and East Asia has witnessed a surge in popularity in the past two decades to assume the rank of a fetishized commodity. This research investigates the construction of the multidimensional concept of terroir as applied to the durian economy of Penang, Malaysia based on personal interviews with orchard owners and state government officials to strategically embed the local in the global through the promotion of agritourism. While environmental terroir is a contingent dimension, the construction of a place bound cultural terror is anchored in a strong cultivation tradition, cultivar diversity, and a historical sense of community. This research deepens the cultural terroir dimension in two ways. First, it injects the otherwise aspatial concept of refinement to the cultural terroir narratives of orchard owners allowing the on-farm tourist consumption experience to be more geographically rooted. Second, it conceptually links cultural terroir to the marketing terroir instrument of the Balik Pulau geographical indication; while functioning as a governance tool to prevent fraud and to construct a place bound product valorization and differentiation within an expanding and larger scale durian economy, it also indirectly assists in preserving agro-diversity and local identity.     

榴莲壳和不同炭材料对低汞溶液的吸附动力学

含Hg(Ⅱ)废水直接排放会对环境产生危害,目前多采用活性炭去除,而活性炭制作需要高温热解和活化,导致其使用成本较高.近年来,果皮、果渣、炉渣等废弃物也被尝试应用于直接去除水溶液中的重金属离子.本文采用榴莲壳、椰壳活性炭和活性炭纤维在不同条件下对低浓度Hg(Ⅱ)溶液进行吸附,使用原子荧光光谱法对吸附溶液中剩余的Hg(Ⅱ)...