Which Way Forward

Indonesia contains some of Asia's most biodiverse and threatened forests. The challenges result from both long-term management problems and the political, social, and economic turmoil of the past few years. The contributors to Which Way Forward? explore recent events in Indonesia, while focusing on what can be done differently to counter the destruction of forests due to asset-stripping, corruption, and the absence of government authority. Contributors to the book include anthropologists, economists, foresters, geographers, human ecologists, and policy analysts. Their concerns include the effects of government policies on people living in forests, the impact of the economic crisis on small farmers, links between corporate debt and the forest sector, and the fires of the late 1990s. By analyzing the nation's dramatic circumstances, they hope to demonstrate how Indonesia as well as other developing countries might handle their challenges to protect biodiversity, meet human needs, and deal with political change. The book includes a foreword by Emil Salim, former Indonesian Minister of State for Population and the Environment and former president of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme. "On economic and social justice grounds, as well as for biodiversity conservation and environmental management, this is a rare and extremely useful analysis of forestry issues, given growing domestic and international concern over the status of Indonesia's forests." -- Larry Fisher, Cornell University "An original contribution to understanding the obstacles and opportunities for achieving forest policy reform in Indonesia and elsewhere." -- Paul K. Gellert, Cornell University A copublication of Resources for the Future and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). A copublication of Resources for the Future, the Center forInternational Forestry Research (CIFOR), and the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS).

Grahame Applegate is a forest scientist with the Sustainable Forest Management program at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Graham Baines is a freelance consultant in tropical natural resources and environmental management Christopher Barr is a policy scientist with CIFOR's Underlying Causes of Deforestation, Forest Degradation, and Changes in Human Welfare program Chris P.A. Bennett is an associate with the Food and Resource Economics Group, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of British Columbia David Brown was recently awarded a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science of the University of Washington. His research examines the appropriation of timber rent by political elites in insular Southeast Asia Jeffrey Y. Campbell is a program officer in environment and development with the Ford Foundation Anne Casson is a research fellow in the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Project, Australian National University Carol J. Pierce Colfer is leader of the CIFOR program on Local People, Devolution, and Adaptive Collaborative Management Ahmad Dermawan is research program assistant in the Underlying Causes of Deforestation, Forest Degradation, and Changes in Human Welfare program and the Sustainable Forest Management program at CIFOR Richard G. Dudley has more than 20 years experience working with developing-country scientists and administrators in the management of natural fish populations, conservation of aquatic and marine resources, and the assessment of environmental impacts on fisheries and other resources. He has a special interest in helping countries improve their own natural resource management capabilities Chip Fay is a leading member of the research team at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) that works on land and tree tenure, assisting the governments in Indonesia and the Philippines in their efforts to develop and strengthen regulatory decrees and legislation, to implement programs that enable forest-dependent communities to maintain their livelihood, and to sustainably manage areas of state-defined forest zones James J. Fox is professor and director at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies David Kaimowitz, an economist, is director general of CIFOR Hariadi Kartodihardjo is a lecturer at the Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agriculture Institute Rita Lindayati is completing her Ph.D. in environmental studies at York University in Canada Andrew Mitchell is a graduate forester with more than 20 years of experience in both temperate and tropical forestry David Packham is a rural fire consultant based in Melbourne. A chemist by training, his major work has been in fire retardants, heat and mass transfer in wildfires, and fire detection systems for buildings Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo is leader of the CIFOR Underlying Causes of Deforestation, Forest Degradation, and Changes in Human Welfare program Emil Salim is professor of economics at the University of Indonesia Jeffrey A. Sayer was director general of CIFOR from its inception in 1992 until July 2001 Martua Sirait is a scientist at ICRAF Ross Smith is the assistant commissioner for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service William D. Sunderlin is a sociologist working in CIFOR's Underlying Causes of Deforestation, Forest Degradation, and Changes in Human Welfare program Nigel Tapper is head of the School of Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Eva (Lini) Wollenberg is a researcher at CIFOR Rachel Wrangham is an associate professional officer with DFID and a Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics