Forests

Nature, People, Power

Martin Doornbos (Institute for Social Studies), Ashwani Saith, Ben White (Institute for Social Studies)

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English

Wiley-Blackwell
12 June 2000

Forests, rainforests; Management of land & natural resources; Deforestation; Social impact of environmental issues

Series: Development and Change Special Issues

The papers in this volume highlight in various ways the complex articulations of local processes and global forces in tropical forest struggles. Taken together, they show how social science research has come of age, moving beyond the crude 'tragedy of the commons' and 'prisoner's dilemma' approaches of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Edited by: Martin Doornbos (Institute for Social Studies), Ashwani Saith, Ben White (Institute for Social Studies)
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 535g
ISBN: 9780631221883
ISBN 10: 0631221883
Series: Development and Change Special Issues
Pages: 372
Publication Date: 12 June 2000
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , A / AS level , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Forest Lives and Struggles: An Introduction (Martin Doornbos, Ashwani Saith and Ben White, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague). 2.Development Discourses and Peasant-Forest Relations: Natural Resource Utilization as Social Process (Anja Nygren, Department of Anthropology, University of Helsinki). 3. Fashioned Forest Paths, Occluded Histories? International Environmental Analysis in West African Locales (Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex; and James Fairhead, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). 4. State Sciences and Development Histories: Encoding Local Forestry Knowledge in Bengal (K. Sivaramakrishnan, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle). 5. The Changing Regime: Forest Property and Reformasi in Indonesia (John F. McCarthy, Asian Research Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia). 6. Balancing Politics, Economics and Conservation: The Case of the Cameroon Forestry Law Reform (Francois Ekoko, UNDP/BDP/SEED, New York). 7. People in Between: Conversion and Conservation of Forest Lands in Thailand (Jin Sato, Institute of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo). 8. Resettlement, Opium and Labour Dependence: Akha-Tai Relations in Northern Laos (Paul T. Cohen, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney). 9.Environmentalists, Rubber Tappers and Empowerment: The Politics and Economics of Extractive Reserves (Katrina Brown, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich; and S'rgio Rosendo, University of East Anglia, Norwich). 10. Maintaining Centralized Control in Community-based Forestry: Policy Construction in the Philippines (Richard Gauld, Department of Geography, King's College London). 11. Unpacking the 'Joint' in Joint Forest Management (Nandini Sundar, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi). 12. Community Forestry and Tree Theft in Mexico: Resistance or Complicity in Conservation? (Dan Klooster, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York). 13. Remote Sensibilities: Discourses of Technology and the Making of Indonesia's Natural Disaster (Emily E. Harwell, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies). 14. From Timber to Tourism? Recommoditizing the Japanese Forest (John Knight, School of Anthropological Studies, Queen's University of Belfast). Notes on Contributors. Index.

Martin Doornbos is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Social Studies. His current work includes issues of post-war rehabilitation and development, resource conflicts, and identity and power. Recent publications include Institutionalizing Development Policies and Resource Strategies in Eastern Africa and India: Developing Winners and Losers (Macmillan, 2000); Post-conflict Eritrea: Prospects for Reconstruction and Development, co-edited with Alemseged Tesfay (Red Sea Press, 1999); and Dynamics of State Formation: India and Europe Compared, co-edited with Sudipta Kaviraj (Sage Publications, 1997). Ben White is Professor of Rural Sociology at the Institute of Social Studies. He has extensive research experience on processes of rural change, particularly in Indonesia. He is editor and contributor of Agrarian Transformations: Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia (University of California Press, 1989), In the Shadow of Agriculture: Non-Farm Activities in the Javanese Economy, Past and Present (KIT Press, 1991) and author of Child Workers in Indonesia (Akatiga, 1998).