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Asien-Afrika-Institut
Forestry and Plantations in Southeast Asia
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29.10.2021
Forestry and deforestration in the Greater Central Indochinese Highlands - A view from Cambodia and Laos
In recent decades, the Cambodia and Lao portions of the Central Indochinese Highlands have emerged as deforestation hotspots, as state forest enterprises and then transnational plantation companies have targeted the upland frontier. Focusing on the history and drivers of forest conversion in this area, this talk will discuss two transnational approaches to combat ongoing forest loss: community-driven land rights reclamation, using an example from northeastern Cambodia; and carbon forestry, or REDD, using an example from southern Laos. The talk will highlight the ongoing challenges of both approaches, despite some initial successes.
Michael Dwyer is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography of Indiana University with a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley. His work draws on political ecology, political geography, and development studies to investigate the uneven geographies of development in Southeast Asia. His research and teaching interests include the legacies of the Cold War conflict in shaping contemporary processes of state-managed land grabbing, the spatial targeting of land-governance interventions like land titling and climate change-focused forest conservation, and the political-economic and geopolitic drivers of new and environmentally harmful energy infrastructure in the Mekong region. Michael Dwyer is currently working on his forthcoming publications Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush and Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region.
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