The Challenge of Sustainable Forests is an innovative piece of work that provides a range of insights into forest resource use in Malaysia and the power relations behind the working of forest policy at the local level. It explores the rich debate on "development" and "environment" to cast new light on the social and ecological dimension of forest degradation. Taking politics seriously, the book draws on the micropolitics of scientific knowledge production, in particular sustained yield technology, to examine the institutionalization of scientific forestry in forest resource management. With insights derived from fieldwork in Pahang and Sarawak, the book argues that sustainable forest management as a movement and a scientific discipline is in danger of speaking a techno-bureaucratic language similar to sustained yield, unless fundamental questions about livelihood protection and access rights to environmental and forest resources are sufficiently addressed. This process is not helped by the greater importance accorded biological and economic imperatives in conservation discourse and practice. By way of exploring this issue, The Challenge of Sustainable Forests takes a detour to the Philippines where issues of livelihood, access rights and social justice have affected management practices more seriously than in Malaysia.
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"A creative synthesis between environmental social science and the sociology of science and knowledge... Includes impressive case material." -- Frederick H. Buttel, University of Wisconsin
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Fadzilah Majid Cooke is research fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
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Malaysia's old-growth tropical forests are subject to many different kinds of economic, political, regional, national and international pressures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
integrated timber complexes, sustained yield technology, scientific forestry discourse, timber licences, selective management system, native land issue, forest resource policy, native customary rights, sustained yield practices, indigenous cultural communities, forestry rules, land resettlement schemes, ancestral domain claim, forest migrants, social forest, yield discourse, licensed area, senior foresters, sustained yield forestry, cutting limits, sustainable forest management, timber wealth, gotta percha, forestry professionals, forest department Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Forest Department, Chief Minister, Peninsular Malaysia, Endau Rompin, Third World, The Star, United States, World Bank, World War Two, Kuala Lumpur, Orang Asli, Ali Baba, Forest Ordinance, Borneo Post, Annual Report, Land Code, Taman Negara, Bureau of Forestry, Far Eastern Economic Review, General Lumber, Mentiga Forest Products, Southeast Asia, Harrison Ngau, Lee Abdullah, National Forest Policy New!
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Malaysia's old-growth tropical forests are subject to many different kinds of economic, political, regional, national and international pressures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
integrated timber complexes, sustained yield technology, scientific forestry discourse, timber licences, selective management system, native land issue, forest resource policy, native customary rights, sustained yield practices, indigenous cultural communities, forestry rules, land resettlement schemes, ancestral domain claim, forest migrants, social forest, yield discourse, licensed area, senior foresters, sustained yield forestry, cutting limits, sustainable forest management, timber wealth, gotta percha, forestry professionals, forest department Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Forest Department, Chief Minister, Peninsular Malaysia, Endau Rompin, Third World, The Star, United States, World Bank, World War Two, Kuala Lumpur, Orang Asli, Ali Baba, Forest Ordinance, Borneo Post, Annual Report, Land Code, Taman Negara, Bureau of Forestry, Far Eastern Economic Review, General Lumber, Mentiga Forest Products, Southeast Asia, Harrison Ngau, Lee Abdullah, National Forest Policy New!
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- Rain Forest Regeneration and Management (Advances in Gynecology and Obstetrics Series) by A. Gómez-Pompa on 5 pages
- The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis by Walter W. Powell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Politics and Policy Implementation in the Third World by Grindle in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Indigenous Peoples of Asia (Monographs of the Association for Asian Studies) by Robert Harrison Barnes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Politics, Policy and Natural Resources by Dennis L Thompson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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