State, communities and forests in contemporary Borneo /

"This book, the first in the series of Asia-Pacific Environmental Monographs, looks at the political complexities of forest management across the whole island of Borneo, tackling issues of tenure, land use change and resource competition, 'tradition' versus 'modernity', disp...

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Other authors / contributors: Cooke, Fadzillah M. (Editor)
Imprint: Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2006.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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Series:Asia-Pacific environment monograph ; 1.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction. Recent development and conservation interventions in Borneo / Fadzilah Majid Cooke
  • Part II. Framework and institutions. Expanding state spaces using 'idle' native customary land in Sarawak / Fadzilah Majid Cooke
  • Native customary land: the trust as a device for land development in Sarawak / Ramy Bulan
  • Decentralisation, forests and estate crops in Kutai Barat District, East Kalimantan / Anne Casson
  • Part III. Local interventions. Community mapping, tenurial rights and conflict resolution in Kalimantan / Ketut Deddy
  • Community cooperatives, 'illegal' logging and regional autonomy in the borderlands of West Kalimantan / Reed L. Wadley
  • Seeking spaces for biodiversity by improving tenure security for local communities in Sabah / Justine Vaz
  • Social, environmental and legal dimensions of Adat as an instrument of conservation in East Kalimantan / Cristina Eghenter
  • The potential for coexistence between shifting cultivation and commercial logging in Sarawak / Mogens Pedersen, Ole Mertz and Gregers Hummelmose
  • Part IV. Conclusion. Concluding remarks on the future of natural resource management in Borneo / Cristina Eghenter.