Negotiating development narratives within large-scale oil palm projects on village lands in Sarawak, Malaysia

• Main Authors: Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck, Bruun, Thilde Bech, Egay, Kelvin, Fenger, Milja, Klee, Simone, Pedersen, Anna Frohn, Pedersen, Lærke Marie Lund, Suárez Villanueva, Victor
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2016
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); S Agriculture (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14839/1/Negotiating-development-narratives-within-large-scale-oil-palm-projects-on-village-lands-in-Sarawak%2C-Malaysia_2016_Geographical-Journal.html; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14839/; https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84994093925&doi=10.1111%2fgeoj.12181&partnerID=40&md5=09df74253182c8c8e7b1a18a8e898eae
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

The Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo is one of the global hotspots of deforestation and forest degradation. The planting of oil palm has played a key role in the transformation of land use in the state. While much of the expansion in Sarawak so far has taken place in state forests...