On the Edge of the Sacred Forest

It is obvious to say that the relations between human beings and their nonhuman environment are complex, but it is important to draw attention to the way this complexity is modeled and which of the relevant actors and relationships are drawn upon for explanation-in particular when scholars, like the authors of these three volumes, intend to revise and reconceptualise humanenvironment relationships.These relationships are always formed under specific social and political conditions, which these studies aim to elucidate.The question is, which conditions are given more importance and which are less decisive in the models?Southeast Asia stands out for its great diversity of human-environment interactions, while at the same time its rapidly developing economies create an urgent need to reform and rethink them.These three important contributions to the study of political ecology centre on forests, their globalised and localised uses, the national and transnational claims made in regard to them, as well as the position of those who depend on and live in them.The three volumes do not shy away from the complexity of the situations they study, in terms of politics, local culture, ecology, history, and transnational

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