Extreme Conflict and Tropical Forests

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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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.

• Conflict
• Conflicts
• Governance
• Peace
• Tropical forests
• biodiversity
• forest
• forest policy
• logging

From the reviews:

"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)

• 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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