Written by leading authorities from Australasia, Europe and North America, this book examines the dynamic conflicts and synergies between nature conservation and human development in contemporary Cambodia. "Cambodia's headlong 'development' since 1993 has given the country one of the highest growth rates in Asia. This clear-headed, disturbing and often poignant volume counts up the human and ecological costs of uncontrolled 'development', deforestation, land-grabbing, foreign intrusions and endemic corruption on Cambodia's depleted landscape and on its distressed. resilient and long-suffering population." - David Chandler, Monash University, Australia. "This is an important book, and not just for those interested in Cambodia's environmental transformation. Empirically rich, it provides a powerful antidote to the comforting notion that economic growth can go hand-in-hand with environmental protection and this, in turn, with human development. Notwithstanding a few shards of hope, all-in-all this is a sobering volume that should be read by scholars, practitioners and officials alike." - Jonathan Rigg, National University of Singapore. "This is a fascinating international politico-environmental study... The achingly turbulent history of Cambodia compels one to think fundamentally afresh about how to connect people, state, nature and culture. This book offers some hope and provides extraordinary insights." - Des Thompson,BES Bulletin. "This book would benefit to a broad range of scholars and activists working on political and development issues in Cambodia and indeed anybody interested in the many and rapid ways the country is changing." - Neil Loughlin, Newsletter Of The Association Of Southeast Asian Studies In The United Kingdom, SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies.