Poffenberger Mark Ed (2 results)

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy octavo xxv + 304pp., colour plates, text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, The story of Cambodia' s contested forest domain begins at the close of its lengthy civil war in the early 1990s. After numerous attempts to rebuild a devastated economy through the commercial exploitation of the nation s rich forest ecosystem, government and civil society sought alternatives to destructive logging by engaging rural communities in forest management and conservation.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 289pp.incl.index+advert; HB brick w/gilt; slight rub w/PON; clean,tight pgs. "At the heart of forest mismanagement lie deep-seated differences between governments and rural people about who should control these lands and how they should be managaed.".