Book description
Indonesia contains some of Asia‘s most biodiverse and threatened forests. The challenges result from both long-term management problems and the political, social, and economic turmoil of the past few years. The contributors to Which Way Forward? explore recent events in Indonesia, while focusing on what can be done differently to counter the destruction of forests due to asset-stripping, corruption, and the absence of government authority. Contributors to the book include anthropologists, economists, foresters, geographers, human ecologists, and policy analysts. Their concerns include the effects of government policies on people living in forests, the impact of the economic crisis on small farmers, links between corporate debt and the forest sector, and the fires of the late 1990s. By analyzing the nation‘s dramatic circumstances, they hope to demonstrate how Indonesia as well as other developing countries might handle their challenges to protect biodiversity and other resources, meet human needs, and deal with political change. The book includes an afterword by Emil Salim, former Indonesian Minister of State for Population and the Environment and former president of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme. A copublication of Resources for the Future and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS).
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About Resources for the Future and RFF Press
- Resources for the Future
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Halftitle
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE Changing Policy Discourses and Traditional Communities, 1960–1999
- CHAPTER TWO Ideas and Institutions in Social Forestry Policy
- CHAPTER THREE Responsibility, Accountability, and National Unity in Village Governance
- CHAPTER FOUR Devolution and Indonesia’s New Forestry Law
- CHAPTER FIVE Differing Perspectives on Community Forestry in Indonesia
- CHAPTER SIX Reforming the Reformists in Post-Soeharto Indonesia
- CHAPTER SEVEN Structural Problems in Implementing New Forestry Policies
- CHAPTER EIGHT Timber Management and Related Policies
- CHAPTER NINE Timber Concession Reform
- CHAPTER TEN The Political Economy of Indonesia’s Oil Palm Subsector
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Effects of Crisis and Political Change, 1997–1999
- CHAPTER TWELVE Corporate Debt and the Indonesian Forestry Sector
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Forest Fires in Indonesia
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Ten Propositions to Explain Kalimantan’s Fires
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Forests and Regional Autonomy
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Dynamics of Illegal Logging in Indonesia
- CONCLUSION
- AFTERWORD
- APPENDIX
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Which Way Forward
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2010
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136522765
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