میانمار: دولت، جامعه و محیط زیست

Despite deteriorating economic and developmental conditions, worsening environmental problems, and troubles arising from the unresolved status of its ethnic minorities, Myanmar seems no closer to a political resolution. Myanmar's economy continues to stagnate, with severe implications for its people. Low levels of international assistance have exacerbated the situation. Myanmar: The State, community and the environment examines the missed opportunities by government and opposition groups to find a way out of the political impasse and improve the standard of living of the people of Myanmar. This collection provides insights into the country's economic development, in particular the vital rice-marketing sector and the attempts to expand existing industrial zones. It focuses, for the first time, on Myanmar's environmental governance with in-depth case studies, and on the increasing need for effective environmental protection and sustainability Myanmar......Page 1 Contents......Page 5 Tables......Page 6 Maps......Page 7 Abbreviations......Page 8 Contributors......Page 11 Editors’ note......Page 16 Introduction......Page 17 1 The political situation in Myanmar......Page 21 2 A Burmese perspective on prospects for progress......Page 38 3 Of kyay-zuand kyet-su: the military in 2006......Page 56 4 Conflict and displacement in Burma/Myanmar......Page 74 5 Foreign policy as a political tool: Myanmar 2003–2006......Page 102 6 Myanmar’s economy in 2006......Page 128 7 Transforming Myanmar’s rice marketing......Page 155 8 Industrial zones in Burma and Burmese labour in Thailand......Page 179 9 Environmental governance in the SPDC’s Myanmar......Page 209 10 Environmental governance of mining in Burma......Page 238 11 Spaces of extraction......Page 266 12 Identifying conservation issues in Kachin State......Page 291 Index......Page 310 Myanmar seems no closer to a political resolution even as economic, minority, developmental and environmental situations continue to worsen. Myanmar: the state, community and the environment explains how and why the government and opposition groups have missed opportunities to find a way out of this political impasse. New insights are provided on aspects of Myanmars economic development, focusing on the vital rice-marketing sector and attempts to expand industrial zones. For the first time, Myanmar's environmental issues are examined comprehensively, with an assessment of the serious problems of environmental governance documented using in-depth case studies that provide evidence of a serious neglect of environmental protection and sustainability