The political ecology of tropical forests in Southeast Asia
Subtitle: historical perspectives
By: edited by Lye Tuck-Po, Wil de Jong, Abe Ken-ichi.
Contributors: Abe, Ken-ichi.; Jong, Wil de.; Lye, Tuck-Po.
Series: Kyoto area studies on Asia -- v. 6
Publisher: Kyoto University Press; Trans Pacific
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Kyoto, Japan; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Forest policy -- Asia, Southeastern.; Political ecology -- Asia, Southeastern.; Rain forests -- Economic aspects -- Asia, Southeastern.; Forests and forestry -- Asia, Southeastern.; Rain forest ecology -- Asia, Southeastern.
Notes: "The chapters in this volume began as papers given at a Japan Center for Area Studies (JCAS)/National Museum of Ethnology symposium bearing the same name (Osaka, November 28-30, 2000)"--P. xv.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: 1. The political ecology of tropical forests in Southeast Asia : historical roots of modern problems / Wil de Jong, Lye Tuck-Po, Abe Ken-ichi; value: 2. Forests versus agriculture : colonial forest services, environmental ideas and the regulation of land-use change in Southeast Asia / Lesley Potter; value: 3. Trading in the forest : lessons from Lao history / Deanna Donovan; value: 4. The political ecology of forest products in Indonesia : a history of changing adversaries / Wil de Jong ... [et al.]; value: 5. Peat swamp forest development in Indonesia and the political ecology of tropical forests in Southeast Asia / Abe Ken-ichi; value: 6. De facto decentralization and community conflicts in East Kalimantan, Indonesia : explanations from local history and implications for community foresty / Steve Rhee; value: 7. One hundred years of land use changes : political, social and economic influences on an Iban village in Bakong River Basin, Sarawak, East Malaysia / Ichikawa Masahiro; value: 8. The ecological-economics of non-sustainable development : logging tropical forests in Southeast Asia and the Pacific / Herb Thompson; value: 9. Discourse and Southeast Asian deforestation : a case study of the International Tropical Timber Organization / Fred Gale; value: 10. The problem of gaizai : the view from Japanese forestry villages / John Knight.