13 results.

• Forestry, Illegibility and Illegality in Omkoi, Northwest Thailand Download
  Bobby Anderson • Patamawadee Jongruck
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • November 2017 Thailand English
  Opium poppy cultivation in Thailand fell from 12,112 hectares in 1961 to 281 ha in 2015. One outlier exists: Chiang Mai province's remote southwestern district, Omkoi. 90% of the district is a nationa...
• Improving Food Security? Setting Indicators and Observing Change of Rural Household in Central Sulawesi Download
  Dewi Nur Asih • Stephan Klasen
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • November 2017 Indonesia English
  Household food security is a critical issue for Indonesia, which is investigated in this study. Many of rural household in Indonesia depends on agricultural sectors and facing challenges of global war...
• Forest, Water and People: the Roles and Limits of Mediation in Transforming Watershed Conflict in Northern Thailand Download
  Ahmad Dhiaulhaq • Kanchana Wiset • Rawee Thaworn • Seth Kane • David Gritten
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • November 2017 Cambodia • Indonesia • Thailand English
  This study focuses on watershed management in Northern Thailand, where conflict over forest, land and water-use is a prevailing problem. A characteristic of watershed conflicts is that they are often ...
• Gaps in the Thread: Disease, Production, and Opportunity in the Failing Silk Industry of South Sulawesi Download
  Sitti Nuraeni
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • November 2017 Indonesia English
  Indonesian silk farming (Sericulture) has experienced two waves of a pebrine epidemic (also known as pepper disease) and grasserie. The first pebrine epidemic occurred in 1973 and the second one occur...
• Social Forestry - Why and for Whom? a Comparison of Policies in Vietnam and Indonesia Download
  Moira Moeliono • Pham Thu Thuy • Indah Waty Bong • Grace Yee Wong • Maria Brockhaus
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • November 2017 Indonesia • Vietnam English
  Community forestry or social forestry (henceforth referred collectively as SF) programs have become new modes of forest management empowering local managers and hence, allowing integration of diverse ...
• Bound by Debt: Nutmeg Trees and Changing Relations Between Farmers and Agents in a Moluccan Agroforestry Systems Download
  Messalina Lovenia Salampessy • Indra Gumay Febryano • Dini Zulfiani
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • November 2017 English
  Agroforestry is a land management system long practiced by communities in the Moluccas. The practice is commonly known as "Dusung", where one cash crop in particular, nutmeg, is interspersed throughou...
• Mysterious Ginger: Enclaves of a Boom Crop in Thailand Download
  Sukanlaya Choenkwan
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • November 2017 Bangladesh • India • Indonesia • Nigeria • Thailand English
  Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a perennial herb revered as one of the most popular and valued spices of the world. Ginger is the main cash crop supporting the livelihood and improving the economic le...
• Forest and Society: Initiating a Southeast Asia Journal for Theoretical, Empirical, and Regional Scholarship Download
  Micah Fisher • Ahmad Maryudi • Muhammad Alif K. Sahide
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • April 2017 Indonesia • Malaysia • Myanmar • Thailand English
  Welcome to our first edition. We are excited to provide a new, and what we believe, timely avenue for presenting research findings and publications in Southeast Asia, for scholars interested in Southe...
• Corporate Spheres of Responsibility: Architects, Cowboys, and Eco-Warriors in Myanmar's Oil & Gas Industry Download
  Hillary Strasser
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • April 2017 Myanmar English
  Myanmar's recently opened economy is flush with incoming investment and activity. World leaders advocate that all businesses entering the country must operate in a "socially responsible manner." Howev...
• Productivity and Cost Analysis of Forest Harvesting Operation in Matang Mangrove Forest, Perak, Malaysia Download
  Albert Empawi Tindit • Seca Gandaseca • Laurna Nyangon • Ahmad Mustapha Mohamad Pazi
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • April 2017 Malaysia English
  Matang Mangrove Forest is under systematic management since 1902 and still considered as the best managed mangrove forest in the world. This research was conducted to measure the time and productivity...
• People, Land and Poppy: the Political Ecology of Opium and the Historical Impact of Alternative Development in Northwest Thailand Download
  Bobby Anderson
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • April 2017 Afghanistan • Myanmar • Thailand English
  Thailand's near-total elimination of opium poppy cultivation is attributed to “alternative development” programming, which replaces illicit crops with licit ones. However, opium poppy cultivation was ...
• Potential Economic and Development Prospects of Non Timber Forest Products in Community Agroforestry Land Around Sibolangit Tourism Park Download
  Oding Affandi • Anita Zaitunah • Ridwanti Batubara
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • April 2017 Chile English
  The communities who live around Sibolangit Tourism Park have developed nontimber forest products (NTFP) in their own agroforestry lands. This research evaluates the potential economic and development ...
• Managing Forest Conflicts: Perspectives of Indonesia's Forest Management Unit Directors Download
  Larry A. Fisher • Yeon-Su Kim • Sitti Latifah • Madani Mukarom
  description Journal article public Forest and Society • April 2017 Indonesia English
  Recent expansion of the forestry and plantation sectors in Indonesia has intensified agrarian and natural resource conflicts, and created increased awareness of the social, economic and environmental ...