ANDREW COCK, GOVERNING CAMBODIA’S FORESTS: THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF POLICY REFORM, COPENHAGEN

Abstract

The final chapter, “Integration and Forest preservation”, summarises the main findings of the author: Forestry policy reform was directed at the commercial aspect of forest exploitation; its main focus was on the role of the State in the field of logging and concessions; reform supported the ruling elites predatory capacities; when policy reform failed external actors disengaged from