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Rich forests, poor people : resource control and resistance in Java / Nancy Lee Peluso.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 321 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520915534
  • 0520915534
  • 058513152X
  • 9780585131528
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rich forests, poor people.DDC classification:
  • 333.75095982 20
LOC classification:
  • SD657.I5 P45 1992eb
Online resources: Summary: Millions of Javanese peasants live alongside state-controlled forest lands in one of the world's most densely populated agricultural regions. Because their legal access and customary rights to the forest have been severely limited, these peasants have been pushed toward illegal use of forest resources. 'Rich forests, poor people' untangles the complex of peasant and state politics that has developed in Java over three centuries.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-310) and index.

Millions of Javanese peasants live alongside state-controlled forest lands in one of the world's most densely populated agricultural regions. Because their legal access and customary rights to the forest have been severely limited, these peasants have been pushed toward illegal use of forest resources. 'Rich forests, poor people' untangles the complex of peasant and state politics that has developed in Java over three centuries.

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