Exploitation of forestry resources in Southeast Asian countries along “the Belt and Road”(PDF)
《长安大学学报（社科版）》[ISSN:1671-6248/CN:61-1391/C]
- Issue:
- 2019年05期
- Page:
- 35-44
- Research Field:
- 国际经济与贸易
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- Exploitation of forestry resources in Southeast Asian countries along “the Belt and Road”
- Author(s):
- WANG Jizhan
- Division of Humanities，Peking University，Beijing 100871，China
- Keywords:
- “the Belt and Road”; Southeast Asia; timber resources; Thailand; NGO; environment governance; sustainable development; AsiaPacific trade cooperation
- PACS:
- S750
- DOI:
- -
- Abstract:
- Southeast Asian (SEA) countries along “the Belt and Road” boast of ample national forest resources,and are important tropical timber goods exporters in the world. However, under the onesided development strategy, deforestation has posed a serious problem threatening the sustainable exploitation of timer resources in the region. As modern Thai forestry management is typical among SEA countries, this paper will use Thailand as a case for study, analyze the evolution of its modern forestry management in the long term, discuss features and problems of its forestry management system, and explore and summarize the forestry management experience of SEA countries. This study believes that the state monopoly in forestry management is the crux threatening the sustainable development of Thai forestry, resulting in the onesided pursuit of economic interests, thus breeding corruption, leading to overexploitation and social conflicts, and destroying the biodiversity of rain forests. This study also believes that the academic research and civil protection campaigns voluntarily organized by the society have an impact on the forestry management monopoly in SEA countries. They have led to the formation of NonGovernmental Organizations (NGOs) specializing in forestry governance and environmental protection, promoted the forestry policy reform of the SEA countries since 1980s, and mitigated the problems brought by destructive exploitation. Therefore, in the cooperation in trade and environment between China and the SEA countries along “the Belt and Road”, Chinese government should attach importance to the role of local NGOs, actively participate in the AsiaPacific trade cooperation, and improve the overall environment of resource exploitation.
Last Update: 2019-11-07