Conservation and Development in Cambodia

Sarah Milne is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Resources, Environment and Development group, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. Sango Mahanty is an ARC Future Fellow in the Resources, Environment and Development group, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.

1. The Political Ecology of Cambodia’s Transformation Sarah Milne and Sango Mahanty 2. Shackled to Nature? The Post-conflict State and its Symbiotic Relationship with Natural Resources Sarah Milne, Pak Kimchoeun, and Michael Sullivan Part 1: Transformation, Complexity and Contestation in Nature-Society Relations 3. Lost in Transition: Landscape, Ecological Gradients and Legibility on the Tonle Sap Floodplain Andrew S. Roberts 4. Can Market Integration Improve Livelihoods and Safeguard the Environment? The Case of Hybrid Rice Varieties in Cambodia’s Agricultural Heartland Maylee Thavat 5. Land is Life: An Analysis of the Role ‘Grand Corruption’ Plays in Enabling Elite Grabbing of Land in Cambodia Megan MacInnes 6. Contested Development and Environment: Chinese-backed Hydropower and Infrastructure Projects in Cambodia Michael Sullivan Part 2: Interventions in Natural Resource Management 7. Managing Protected Areas in Cambodia: The Challenge for Conservation Bureaucracies in a Hostile Governance Environment Richard Paley 8. In Whose Name and in Whose Interests? An Actor-oriented Analysis of Community Forestry in Bey, a Khmer village in Northeast Cambodia Robin Biddulph 9. The Forest Carbon Commodity Chain in Cambodia’s Voluntary Carbon Market Sango Mahanty, Amanda Bradley and Sarah Milne Part 3: Social Movements and Radical Responses to Transformation 10. What about the ‘Unprotected’ Areas? Building on Traditional Forms of Ownership and Land Use for Dealing with New Contexts Jeremy Ironside 11. Cultures and Histories of Resistance in Cambodia Margaret Slocomb 12. A ‘People’s’ Irrigation Reservoir on the Tonle Sap Floodplain John Marston and Chhuon Hoeur 13. Story-telling and Social Change: A Case Study of the Prey Lang Community Network Terry Parnell