1. Forest Lives and Struggles: An Introduction: Martin Doornbos,
Ashwani Saith and Ben White (Institute of Social Studies, The
Hague).

2.Development Discourses and Peasant-Forest Relations: Natural
Resource Utilization as Social Process: Anja Nygren (Department of
Anthropology, University of Helsinki).

3. Fashioned Forest Paths, Occluded Histories? International
Environmental Analysis in West African Locales: Melissa Leach
(Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex) and James
Fairhead (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London).

4. State Sciences and Development Histories: Encoding Local
Forestry Knowledge in Bengal: K. Sivaramakrishnan (Department of
Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle).

5. The Changing Regime: Forest Property and Reformasi in
Indonesia: John F. McCarthy (Asian Research Centre, Murdoch
University, Western Australia).

6. Balancing Politics, Economics and Conservation: The Case of
the Cameroon Forestry Law Reform: FranÎois Ekoko
(UNDP/BDP/SEED, New York).

7. People in Between: Conversion and Conservation of Forest
Lands in Thailand: Jin Sato (Institute of Environmental Studies,
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo).

8. Resettlement, Opium and Labour Dependence: Akha-Tai Relations
in Northern Laos: Paul T. Cohen (Department of Anthropology,
Macquarie University, Sydney).

9.Environmentalists, Rubber Tappers and Empowerment: The
Politics and Economics of Extractive Reserves: Katrina Brown
(School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich)
and S'rgio Rosendo (University of East Anglia, Norwich).

10. Maintaining Centralized Control in Community-based Forestry:
Policy Construction in the Philippines: Richard Gauld (Department
of Geography, King's College London).

11. Unpacking the 'Joint' in Joint Forest Management: Nandini
Sundar (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi).

12. Community Forestry and Tree Theft in Mexico: Resistance or
Complicity in Conservation?: Dan Klooster (School of International
and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York).

13. Remote Sensibilities: Discourses of Technology and the
Making of Indonesia's Natural Disaster: Emily E. Harwell (Yale
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies).

14. From Timber to Tourism? Recommoditizing the Japanese Forest:
John Knight (School of Anthropological Studies, Queen's University
of Belfast).

Martin Doornbos is Professor of Political Science at the
Institute of Social Studies. His current work includes issues of
post-war rehabilitation and development, resource conflicts, and
identity and power. Recent publications include
Institutionalizing Development Policies and Resource Strategies
in Eastern Africa and India: Developing Winners and Losers
(Macmillan, 2000); Post-conflict Eritrea: Prospects for
Reconstruction and Development, co-edited with Alemseged Tesfay
(Red Sea Press, 1999); and Dynamics of State Formation: India
and Europe Compared, co-edited with Sudipta Kaviraj (Sage
Publications, 1997).

Ben White is Professor of Rural Sociology at the
Institute of Social Studies. He has extensive research experience
on processes of rural change, particularly in Indonesia. He is
editor and contributor of Agrarian Transformations: Local
Processes and the State in Southeast Asia (University of
California Press, 1989), In the Shadow of Agriculture: Non-Farm
Activities in the Javanese Economy, Past and Present (KIT
Press, 1991) and author of Child Workers in Indonesia
(Akatiga, 1998).

M. Doornbos, Institute for Social Studies; B. White, Institute for Social Studies