Resource degradation in state property regimes occurs when government agencies cannot properly control the behaviour of those authorised to use forest resources, such as logging concessionaires, and when government is weak and unable to confront powerful interests (Bromley 1999). These conditions have been broadly prevalent in Cambodia. Part of the state apparatus may have also been unwilling, rather than unable, to enforce environmental legislation. Forest concessionaires have benefited from client-patron relationships with the Cambodian political and military elites, thus confounding national and international attempts to reform the concession system (De Lopez 2001a).