The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824-1994The author examines how the Burmese state has sought to control the country's forest activities, and the ways in which groups relying on the forest for their livelihood (loggers, transnational corporations, cultivators, peasants) have fought such control. |
Contents
Political Ecology and the State | 4 |
The Forest Department as a Resource Manager | 11 |
Conflicting Perceptions of Forest | 17 |
PreScientific Forestry 18241855 | 24 |
Control and Resistance 18561881 | 46 |
European Timber Traders | 76 |
The Era of Expansion 18821901 | 78 |
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The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824-1994: 1824 - 1994 Raymond L. Bryant No preview available - 1997 |
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agriculture areas Asia bamboo BBTCL Brandis British Burma British rule bureaucratic Burmese forest Burmese forest politics campaign cent central Chapter Chief Commissioner civil officials colonial Burma colonial forest colonial officials commercial conflict context country's cutch deforestation early twentieth century ecological Environmental European firms exports forest access Forest Administration forest control Forest Department Forest Department's Forest Division forest officials forest products forest rules forest sector girdling Government of India Guha Ibid imperial Indian Forester indigenous insurgent Karen laissez-faire late nineteenth logging London Lower Burma Maung Myanmar nationalist nineteenth century overharvesting Pegu Yoma plains reserves Plan postcolonial practices precolonial Pyinmana Ramachandra Guha Rangoon rationalize forest regulate Report reserved forests restrictions RFA Pegu role Sawbwas scientific forestry Shan shifting cultivators SLORC social teak extraction teak forests teak leases teak trade Tenasserim Thailand Tharrawaddy Thayetmyo Timber Board timber extraction timber traders trees Upper Burma village Yamethin Yangon