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• W1676051078 abstract "Deforestation has taken place in Myanmar (Burma) at a rapid pace since 1962 when a military government came to power, centralized the running of the forestry sector, and imposed socialist policies and unsustainable logging targets. Western sanctions were imposed on Burma following the military government's crackdown on the mass protests in 1988, and financial assistance from international organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was subsequently withdrawn. The government's attempts to attract foreign investment and foreign exchange in the 1990s-2000s, primarily through the exploitation of its natural resources, continued the trend in the unsustainable logging of forests by Thai and Chinese investors on its eastern and northern borders. Since the mid-2000s, the government has encouraged foreign investors and their domestic partners toward the agribusiness trade, leading to the further clearing of large sections of forested land. In 2010, Myanmar embarked upon a series of democratic reforms aimed at establishing a disciplined democracy-these included holding elections and reopening the parliament. These reforms have encouraged the removal of most trade and financial sanctions, and opened the possibility of Western investment in the extraction of Myanmar's natural resources.It is sometimes assumed that democratic reforms (democratization) have a positive impact upon natural resource management and that more open and democratic societies should have better environmental quality because of the public-good character of natural resources.1 If this were true, the more democratic a regime the less large-scale deforestation would take place. Since relatively few studies, however, have attempted to investigate the relationship between types of political regimes and rates of deforestation, it would be imprudent to generalize that positive changes in political regimes also leads to falling rates of deforestation. One thing is certain, efforts to address forestry in Southeast Asia have encountered powerful local resistance-both from inside governments and from well-connected business elites-and civil society criticisms of these interests have often been suppressed. Reforms promoted by international financial institutions (IFIs) may also be opposed by civil society groups, causing further confusion and division. In part this is caused by the incoherent or conflicting goals laid down by the IFIs themselves, and the subsequent selective adoption by elites of some norms over others at the expense of the most vulnerable groups in society, and the environment.Democracy and Deforestation in Southeast AsiaMyanmar's democratization involves its re-engagement with the Bretton Woods IFIs, their funding, and their goals and objectives for improving governance across the board. The promotion of democracy in postauthoritarian regimes cannot guarantee forest conservation, nor encourage the democratic maturity to deny political elites the short-term attractions of deforestation. The record on forestry reform in Southeast Asia is particularly poor and political elites continue to regard primary forests as an endless source of potential wealth. In 2005, for example, democratic Indonesia remained the second highest deforesting country in the world-due in large part to the expansion of highly profitable palm oil plantations-accounting for 14.5 percent of total global deforestation during the same period. Cambodia also displayed high rates of deforestation, and Myanmar at the time was ranked fourth in the world in terms of area deforested while the country remained under direct military rule.2In all three countries per capita income was substantially low-between US$1,000 and US$4,000.3 At lower levels of income, local or national elites in both democracies and non-democracies are attracted by the profits of deforestation, and local communities are dependent on converting forests for their livelihood. …" @default.
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• W1676051078 title "Democratic Change and Forest Governance in the Asia Pacific: Implications for Myanmar" @default.
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