Governing Cambodia’s Forests: The International Politics of Policy Reform. Written by Andrew Cock, NIAS Press, 2016; 322 Pages. Price: Hardback $80; £50, ISBN 978-87-7694-166-6; Paperback $32; £19.99, ISBN 978-87-7694-167-3
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Map of Cambodia
- Chapter 1: The international politics of policy reform
- Analyzing forest governance
- The politics of policy reform
- Book structure
- Chapter 2: Tropical forests in the global states-system
- The evolution of international initiatives related to tropical forests
- ‘Sustainable Forest Management’ and contemporary forestry reform agendas
- Tropical forests as an anomalous space in the modern world-system
- Chapter 3: Aid donors and the Cambodian elite
- Cambodia’s contemporary political economy
- Hun Sen and the Cambodian state: patrimonialism, state-building and class formation
- External agendas and pressures for reform
- A hybrid system
- Chapter 4: Cambodia’s timber boom and external pressures for reform
- Prelude to the timber boom
- The timber boom’s first phase: the Thai connection
- The timber boom’s second phase: collaboration and competition within the coalition government
- An emerging policy reform agenda and external pressures for reform
- Rationalities of extraction
- Chapter 5: Extraction
- The ‘reform’ accommodation
- The agents and instruments through which the ‘reform’ agenda was furthered
- Reforms and the governance of extraction
- Chapter 6: Appropriation and enclosure
- The rationality of appropriation
- The unravelling of the reform agenda
- Elite counter-responses and the enclosure of forestland
- Chapter 7: Integration and forest preservation
- External–internal interaction in the trajectory of forest governance
- The prospects for tropical forest preservation
- Governmental rationality in the periphery of the post-Cold War international system
- Appendix 1: Logging concessions ordered by date of cancellation
- Appendix 2: Trends in forest cover change 1973–2014
- Bibliography
- Index
* Editor’s Note:
Note
- The website for this book is: http://www.niaspress.dk/books/governing-cambodias-forests.
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Lin, S.-K. Governing Cambodia’s Forests: The International Politics of Policy Reform. Written by Andrew Cock, NIAS Press, 2016; 322 Pages. Price: Hardback $80; £50, ISBN 978-87-7694-166-6; Paperback $32; £19.99, ISBN 978-87-7694-167-3. Forests 2017, 8, 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/f8010004
Lin S-K. Governing Cambodia’s Forests: The International Politics of Policy Reform. Written by Andrew Cock, NIAS Press, 2016; 322 Pages. Price: Hardback $80; £50, ISBN 978-87-7694-166-6; Paperback $32; £19.99, ISBN 978-87-7694-167-3. Forests. 2017; 8(1):4. https://doi.org/10.3390/f8010004
Chicago/Turabian StyleLin, Shu-Kun. 2017. "Governing Cambodia’s Forests: The International Politics of Policy Reform. Written by Andrew Cock, NIAS Press, 2016; 322 Pages. Price: Hardback $80; £50, ISBN 978-87-7694-166-6; Paperback $32; £19.99, ISBN 978-87-7694-167-3" Forests 8, no. 1: 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/f8010004
APA StyleLin, S. -K. (2017). Governing Cambodia’s Forests: The International Politics of Policy Reform. Written by Andrew Cock, NIAS Press, 2016; 322 Pages. Price: Hardback $80; £50, ISBN 978-87-7694-166-6; Paperback $32; £19.99, ISBN 978-87-7694-167-3. Forests, 8(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/f8010004