The fourth circle : a political ecology of Sumatra's rainforest frontier
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The fourth circle : a political ecology of Sumatra's rainforest frontier
（Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific）
Stanford University Press, 2006
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-345) and index
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Description
This book addresses the politics of environmental change in one of the richest areas of tropical rainforest in Indonesia. Based on field studies conducted in three agricultural communities in rural Aceh, this work considers a number of questions: How do customary (adat) village and state institutions work? What roles do they play in managing local resources? How have they evolved over time? Are villagers, state policies, or corrupt local networks responsible for the loss of tropical rainforest? Will better outcomes emerge from revitalizing customary management, from changing state policies, or from transforming the way the state works? And why do projects designed by outsiders so often fail?
The book describes how, as key actors interact, they create arrangements that effectively manage local resources, eclipsing adat and formal state management structures. While outside interventions try to work with adat and the state, they fail to engage fully with the main problem-that is, that district webs of power and interest, coalescing around local resources and reaching into the wider society, lead inexorably to environmental decline.
Table of Contents
@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Tables, Maps, and Illustrations iii Acknowledgments iii Glossary iii Note on Terminology iii @toc2:Chapter 1 Introduction: Institutional Arrangements and Forest Regimes 0 Chapter 2 Local Institutions in Sama Dua 00 Chapter 3 Menggamat: Turning in Circles 000 Chapter 4 Power and Interest in Badar 000 Chapter 5 Conclusion 000 Chapter 6 Epilogue 000 @toc4:Appendix: Fieldwork in Aceh: Research Context and Experience 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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