Dipterocarp Forest Ecosystems: Towards Sustainable Management

The Dipterocarp forests of South-East Asia constitute a dominant component of the world''s tropical forests. As such, they are intertwined with a Pandora''s box of problems that have plagued the world for decades; Over- and underdevelopment, poverty, hunger, population growth, exploitation of natural resources, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, the debt crisis and, of late, climate ...