Deforesting Malaysia

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

*****   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

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Yoshie

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