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Deforestation in the Postwar Philippines is not without several shortcomings. Most notably, while Kummer analyzes some twenty-six variables for their contribution to deforestation, he was unable to analyze corruption, landlessness, fuelwood extraction, food self-sufficiency, or other measures of poverty due to the absence of reliable data. This precluded rigorous analysis of the very factors that a political economy perspective would entail. In fact, these factors may not be amenable to regression analyses. As a consequence of this and the acknowledged shortcomings of the data, the statistical certainty and subsequent tone of some of Kummer's conclusions seem unwarranted. Another problem is organizational. There are redundant discussions of deforestation, lack of reliable data, and other subjects in Chapters 3 and 5. Finally, the book would have benefited from a more complete index. Deforestation studies, literature, and remote sensing/satellite technology has changed dramatically since Kummer's work in the late 1980s (e.g., W.