Beyond Slash And Burn

Building on Indigenous Management of Borneo‘s Tropical Rain Forests
by Carol J. Pierce Colfer and Nancy Peluso, Chin See Chung

This title is volume 11 of Advances in Economic Botany. What is the world giving up when tropical rainforests are destroyed? The authors ponder this question from the view of the Uma‘ Jalan Kenyah, an indigenous people of eastern Borneo, by examining the complex management systems they have developed for tropical forests. This work reports on the many uses the Kenyah make of the various stages of forest regrowth, the under-recognized benefits gained from the forest, and the forest‘s value beyond what is attached to it by outsiders. The book‘s final chapter offers recommendations on how the Uma Jalan Kenyah system might be adapted to help in the conservation of tropical rainforests and the continued subsistence of traditional rain forest communities. Twelve appendixes, including sections on population data and local uses of plants from forests and home gardens, complete this volume.

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