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Abstract:
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"This paper examines community organizations' response to major new pulp and paper industry projects in Indonesia, Thailand, and Australia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Whereas numerous scholars have been examining communities' response to the establishment of rapidly growing tree plantations, my study takes the next step and looks at what happens after industry is established. The front of conflict shifts from extensive resources (land, forests) to intensive resources (especially water). While often not strong enough politically and militarily to directly challenge state/private seizure of common property resources, community forces have had greater success in the regulation of industry, including its choice of technologies and treatment of wastes. Privatization marches on. However, the internationalization of industry, finance, science, regulation, and social movements makes for a new landscape of conflict. This study draws on the author's doctoral dissertation research on innovation in environmental technology in the pulp and paper industries of Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Data were collected through interviews, site observations, and technical conferences in the field, over a 12-month period, from October 1993 to September 1994."
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