title: Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development
author: Miriam Jorgensen
description: <DIV>&quot;A landmark publication. Any person interested in Native Nations law and policy will want to have this book. It will become the basic deskbook that every leader will turn to for guidance, inspiration, and the hard empirical facts they need for thinking about nation building.&rdquo;&mdash;Robert A. Williams, author of <I>The American Indian in Western Legal Thought</I><BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Tribal leaders want to learn from the experiences of other Native nations. This book provides that opportunity by sharing the stories and strategies of diverse Native communities in mobilizing transformative community change.&rdquo;&mdash;Jacqueline Johnson, Executive Director, National Congress of American Indians<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;What is the future for American Indian communities&mdash;dependency and poverty, or self-reliance and sovereign, community-based government? This book is an invaluable guide to the paths that Native nations are taking toward self-sufficiency and cultural and political renewal. Students, community members, policy makers, and Native leaders need to read and evaluate the ideas set forth here.&rdquo;&mdash;Duane Champagne, author of <I>Social Change and Cultural Continuity Among Native Nations</I><BR /> &#160;</DIV>
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  Forest Policy and Economics
  journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/forpol
  Power relations in community resilience and politics of shifting cultivation
  in Laos
  Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominena,⁎, Juha Kotilainenb
  a Natural Resources Institute Finland, Itäinen pitkäkatu 4 A, 20520 Turku, Finland
  b Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Yliopistokatu 7, 80100 Joensuu, Finland
  A R T I C L E I N F O
  Keywords:
  Shifting cultivation
  Power relations
  Local politics
  Resilience
  Livelihoods
  Laos
  A B S T R A C T
  This article is a contribution to a critical resilience literature that emphasizes the lack of recognition and con-
  sideration of social and power relations, the complexity of local cultural heterogeneity and aspects of justice in
  current resilience approaches. We base our contribution on an empirical study related to policy and project
  interventions implemented by governmental agencies and international dev