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Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers - The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand (Paperback)
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Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers - The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand (Paperback)
Series: Culture, Place, and Nature
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In this far-reaching examination of environmental problems and
politics in northern Thailand, Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker
analyze deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, use of
agrochemicals, and biodiversity in order to challenge popularly
held notions of environmental crisis. They argue that such crises
have been used to support political objectives of state expansion
and control in the uplands. They have also been used to justify the
alternative directions advocated by an array of NGOs. In official
and alternative discourses of economic development, the peoples
living in Thailand's hill country are typically cast as either
guardians or destroyers of forest resources, often depending on
their ethnicity. Political and historical factors have created a
simplistic, misleading, and often scientifically inaccurate
environmental narrative: Hmong farmers, for example, are thought to
exhibit environmentally destructive practices, whereas the Karen
are seen as linked to and protective of their ancestral home.
Forsyth and Walker reveal a much more complex relationship of hill
farmers to the land, to other ethnic groups, and to the state. They
conclude that current explanations fail to address the real causes
of environmental problems and unnecessarily restrict the
livelihoods of local people. The authors' critical assessment of
simplistic environmental narratives, as well as their suggestions
for finding solutions, will be valuable in international policy
discussions about environmental issues in rapidly developing
countries. Moreover, their redefinition of northern Thailand's
environmental problems, and their analysis of how political
influences have reinforced inappropriate policies, demonstrate new
ways of analyzing how environmental science and knowledge are
important arenas for political control. This book makes valuable
contributions to Thai studies and more generally to the fields of
environmental science, ecology, geography, anthropology, and
political science, as well as to policy making and resource
management in the developing world.
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