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Article: Social aspects of forestry in Southeast Asia: a review of postwar trends in the scholarly literature.
- Article from:
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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This paper examines the major trends since the 1950s in social science writing on forest management in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is simultaneously rich in and dependent on natural resources, both for local and national use or sale. Among renewable resources, forest products have played critical roles in the region's national, provincial, and local economies before, during, and after colonialism - for as long as two millennia. Their importance in international trade illustrates that Southeast Asia's forests linked the region to other parts of the world for quite some time, dispelling myths that parts of the region such as Borneo were "remote", "primitive", or ...