[lbo-talk] Deforesting Malaysia

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Apr 28 19:10:51 PDT 2004


***** Deforesting Malaysia: The Political Economy and Social Ecology of Agricultural Expansion and Commercial Logging Authors: Jomo Sundaram, Chang Y.T., Khoo K.J. Contributor(s): Lee Hwok Aun, James Lochlead, Henry Loh Kee Wey, Colin Nicholas, John Phoa, T. Rajavijayan, Baldev Singh Sidhu, Yap Leng Kuen Programme Area: Environment, Sustainable Development and Social Change Project Title: The Social Dynamics of Deforestation in Developing Countries No. of Pages: 253

This study of deforestation in Malaysia's three regions examines the different factors which shape them, the institutions and policies which determine forestry development, the ecological impact of deforestation, and sustainability. Much Malaysian deforestation reflects agricultural expansion or rural development and poverty alleviation projects, while logging became more significant after independence. Sabah and Sarawak have relied increasingly on the exploitation of their timber resources, and private greed and corruption at state level have overridden federal policies of sustainable management. The contributors take a hard look at the economic and political forces in the international tropical timber trade. An ecologically rapacious emphasis on growth, coupled with politically powerful distribution coalitions, give little chance for policy reforms and no hope of radical change. The only pressure that has the slightest effect, it seems, is international criticism.

Contents Preface 1. Malaysia: An Introduction 2. Agriculture and the Forests 3. Peninsular Malaysia 4. Sabah 5. Sarawak 6. Markets, Politics and Logging 7. Conclusion

Publication and ordering details

Pub. Date: 2 Feb 2004 Pub. Place: London ISBN: 1 84277 466 2 Type: Hardback Price: GBP 50.00 From: Zed Books

Pub. Date: 2 Feb 2004 ISBN: 1 84277 467 0 Type: Paperback Price: Please contact the Publisher for price From: Zed Books

<http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/(httpPublications)/44A63DA38ADF266EC1256E540039A537?OpenDocument> ***** -- Yoshie

* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list