Power from the forest : the politics of logging / Marites Dañguilan Vitug

Foreword by Antonio La Viña -- Chapter 1. The politics of disaster -- Chapter 2. Years of plunder -- Chapter 3. Fight for life -- Chapter 4. The Senate's wake-up call -- Chapter 5. Loggers in Congress : Making concessions -- Chapter 6. Soldiers in the woods -- Chapter 7. Defenders and raiders of the forests -- Chapter 8. Land, the source of life -- Chapter 9. The road to the future -- Chapter 10. The distant green years -- Integrated forest management agreements (data as of 2021) -- Acknowledgments

Power from the Forest is the story of logging in the Philippines, the story of the exercise of power—who wields it, who benefits from it, and how. The dangerous intertwine of forests and politics was most glaring under Ferdinand Marcos. In bestowing upon himself the power to grant and revoke logging licenses, Marcos deftly used the forests as a political tool. The insurgency war had bred new logging interests—the rebels and the military who have made the forests their battleground and their sources of income.