By Wil De Jong, Deanna Donovan, Ken-ichi Abe
This ebook offers a well timed perception into the relationships among severe clash, the foreign exchange in woodland items, and the social, monetary and environmental of tropical forests and their human groups. It explores the underlying explanations and the social and environmental effects of clash in tropical wooded area components. The ebook comprises case reviews from Africa, Asia, and Latin the USA.
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Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). (1994). Cambodia Land Cover Atlas 1985/87– 1992/93. Phnom Penh: Food and Agriculture Organization. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). (1997). State of the World’s Forests. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization. Findlay, T. (1995). Cambodia: Legacy and Lessons of UNTAC. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ghee, L. , & Valencia, M.
29–30). 6 per m3 of timber imported into Thailand, or about USD 1 million per year (Morello & Thayer 1992, p. 12). 7 For 24 PHILIPPE L E B ILLON A ND S IMON S PRINGER front, fighting on the ground escalated partially to increase territorial control and thus financial revenue. While agricultural schemes and workshops were also set up in territories “liberated” by the armed groups, the exploitation of natural resources was by far the most profitable activity. All groups attempted to extend their territorial control, and to lease logging concessions to foreign companies, including American and Japanese, but primarily Thai.
B ETW EEN WA R A ND PEA CE: VIOLENCE A ND A CCOMMODA TION 33 As such, the rational of this political economy of war lowered the intensity of violence and provided the opportunity of multiple contacts and the development of common interests on both sides of the political divide as well as a rapid embourgeoisement of local military commanders. These developments among certain Khmer Rouge units seem to have facilitated, if not induced their defection in 1996. In this way, the analysis of an economic logic of war requires a careful appraisal of the relations associating actors through both material and discursive resources at a variety of scales.