Overview
There are many compelling reasons for policymakers to pay more attention to forested regions and invest more resources there. Forests provide valuable products and en- ronmental services and several hundred million extremely poor people live near them. Perhaps the most compelling reason of all, however, is that unless policymakers take forest governance seriously and respond better to the needs of the people living there, these regions will continue to be breeding grounds for violent con?ict, banditry, and illicit crops. From Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast to the jungles of Cambodia, there are several dozen countries around the world that have experienced severe breakdowns in law and order in their forested regions. In many of these cases those breakdowns had widespread economic, social, and political consequences that have threatened entire societies. You would think that after all of the suffering over the last few decades in the forested regions of Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, the two Congo’s, Liberia, Mozambique, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Nepal, Angola, Rwanda, Nicaragua, Cote ˆ d’Ivoire, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, and Vietnam people would begin to take note. After all, they don’t call it jungle warfare for nothing.
Full Product Details
Author: Wil De Jong ,
Deanna Donovan ,
Ken-ichi Abe
Publisher: Springer
Imprint: Springer
Edition: 2007 ed.
Volume: 5
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9789400795839
ISBN 10: 9400795831
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 02 November 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
From the reviews: This book is dedicated to different issues linking tropical forests and conflict, and is volume V in a book series called World forest. The editors have gathered ten articles highlighting different aspects of the relationship between forests and conflict. ... the book is very useful for anyone interested in conflicts and resources and biodiversity and conflict. (Siri Aas Rustad, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 45 (4), July, 2008)
From the reviews: This book is dedicated to different issues linking tropical forests and conflict, and is volume V in a book series called World forest. The editors have gathered ten articles highlighting different aspects of the relationship between forests and conflict. the book is very useful for anyone interested in conflicts and resources and biodiversity and conflict. (Siri Aas Rustad, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 45 (4), July, 2008)
