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Actors and Factors of Deforestation in ‘Tropical Asia’*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Gopal B. Thapa  and
Karl E. Weber
Gopal B. Thapa
Affiliation:
Senior Research Associate, Division of Human Settlements Development, Asian Institute of Technology, GPO Box 2754, Bangkok 10501, Thailand
Karl E. Weber
Affiliation:
Professor of Rural Development Planning, Asian Institute of Technology, GPO Box 2754, Bangkok 10501, Thailand.
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Forest resources in tropical Asia are purportedly destroyed by shifting cultivators and spontaneous settlers as well as farmers in planned settlements for the purposes of expansion of agricultural land, land speculation, commercial crop cultivation, livestock ranching, logging, and manufacturing of paper and various industrial goods.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Spring 1990 , pp. 19 - 27
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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