1Institute of Forest Ecology and Environmental Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, PR China 2Liaoning Academy of Forestry, Shenyang 110032, PR China 3School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, PR China 4School of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, PR China 5Ontario Forest Research Institute, Ontario Ministry of Nat...

2 Director, Forestry and Land Use programme, International Institute for Environment and Development, Edinburgh, UK 3 Assistant Professor, Faculdade de Agronomia e Engenharia Florestal, University of Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique 4 Coordinator Planning, National Forestry Authority, Kampala, Uganda 5 Coordinator, Civic Response, Accra, Ghana 6 Assistant Director of Forestry, Department of...

This paper examines the origins, spread and practices of professional forestry in Southeast Asia, focusing on key sites in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Part 1, in an earlier issue of this journal, challenged popular and scholarly accounts of colonial forestry as a set of simplifying practices exported from Europe and applied in the European colonies. We showed th...