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Extreme Conflict and Tropical Forests

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Wil De Jong

    1. Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

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  2. Deanna Donovan

    1. World Water Assessment Programme, Paris, France

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  3. Ken-Ichi Abe

    1. Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

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  • Addresses the highly relevant issue of extreme conflict and links it to tropical forests
  • Provides the most comprehensive compilations of themes and cases on this theme produced so far
  • Has an analytical and academic approach, but provides many practical details that are relevant for practitioners and policy makers
  • Essential reading material for students of natural resource disciplines
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: World Forests (WFSE, volume 5)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. TROPICAL FORESTS AND EXTREME CONFLICT

    • DEANNA DONOVAN, WIL DE JONG, KEN-ICHI ABE
    Pages 1-15

  3. BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE: VIOLENCE AND ACCOMMODATION IN THE CAMBODIAN LOGGING SECTOR

    • PHILIPPE LE BILLON, SIMON SPRINGER
    Pages 17-36

  4. GREED OR GRIEVANCE IN WEST AFRICA’S FOREST WARS?

    • RUBEN DE KONING
    Pages 37-56

  5. NICARAGUA’S FRONTIER: THE BOSAWAS BIOSPHERE RESERVE

    • A. CARLA STAVER, WIL DE JONG, DAVID KAIMOWITZ
    Pages 57-74

  6. PAST CONFLICTS AND RESOURCE USE IN POSTWAR LAO PDR

    • YAYOI FUJITA, KHAMLA PHANVILAY, DEANNA DONOVAN
    Pages 75-91

  7. SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES: TROPICAL FORESTS, THE STATE AND VIOLENT CONFLICT IN AFRICA

    • LARRY A. SWATUK
    Pages 93-115

  8. CONFRONTING CONFLICT TIMBER

    • STEVEN PRICE, DEANNA DONOVAN, WIL DE JONG
    Pages 117-132

  9. ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE FROM ILLICIT DRUG CROPS IN COLOMBIA

    • MARÍA D. ÁLVAREZ
    Pages 133-147

  10. DEFOLIATION DURING THE VIETNAM WAR

    • GORO NAKAMURA
    Pages 149-158

  11. ADDRESSING EXTREME CONFLICTS THROUGH PEACE PARKS

    • JEFFREY A. MCNEELY
    Pages 159-172

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 173-185
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About this book

There are many compelling reasons for policymakers to pay more attention to forested regions and invest more resources there. Forests provide valuable products and en- ronmental services and several hundred million extremely poor people live near them. Perhaps the most compelling reason of all, however, is that unless policymakers take forest governance seriously and respond better to the needs of the people living there, these regions will continue to be breeding grounds for violent con?ict, banditry, and illicit crops. From Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast to the jungles of Cambodia, there are several dozen countries around the world that have experienced severe breakdowns in law and order in their forested regions. In many of these cases those breakdowns had widespread economic, social, and political consequences that have threatened entire societies. You would think that after all of the suffering over the last few decades in the forested regions of Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, the two Congo’s, Liberia, Mozambique, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Nepal, Angola, Rwanda, Nicaragua, Cote ˆ d’Ivoire, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, and Vietnam people would begin to take note. After all, they don’t call it jungle warfare for nothing.

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"This book is dedicated to different issues linking tropical forests and conflict, and is volume V in a book series called World forest. The editors have gathered ten articles highlighting different aspects of the relationship between forests and conflict. … the book is very useful for anyone interested in conflicts and resources and biodiversity and conflict."(Siri Aas Rustad, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 45 (4), July, 2008)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

    Wil De Jong, Ken-Ichi Abe

  • World Water Assessment Programme, Paris, France

    Deanna Donovan

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