Illegal Logging in the Tropics - Strategies for Cutting Crime

Informationen zum Autor Ramsay M Ravenel, Marshall Street Management, South Norwalk, USA. Ilmi M E Granoff. Carrie A Magee, The New Jersey Tree Foundation, Camden, USA. Klappentext This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing forest crime! providing a theoretical foundation for understanding the problem as well as basic statistical analyses and practical policy prescriptions. It suggests specific policy interventions aimed at curbing illegal logging and identifying solutions to forest crime. You'll find thematic analyses of illegal logging at the global level as well as case studies from both the local and national levels in African! Latin American! and Asian countries. Zusammenfassung Takes an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing forest crime, providing a theoretical foundation for understanding the problem as well as basic statistical analyses and practical policy prescriptions. This work suggests specific policy interventions aimed at curbing illegal logging and identifying solutions to forest crime. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Introduction to Illegal Logging in the Tropics PROBLEM DESCRIPTION Undercutting Sustainability: The Global Problem of Illegal Logging and Trade THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING FOREST GOVERNANCE A System Dynamics Examination of the Willingness of Villagers to Engage in Illegal Logging; Does Improved Governance Contribute To Sustainable Forest Management? Illegal Logging and Local Democracy: Between Communitarianism and Legal Fetishism; You Say Illegal, I Say Legal: The Relationship Between 'Illegal' Logging and Land Tenure, Poverty, and Forest Use Rights in Vietnam; Can 'Legalization' of Illegal Forest Activities Reduce Illegal Logging? Lessons from East Kalimantan; STUDIES Social and Environmental Costs of Illegal Logging in a Forest Management Unit in Eastern Cameroon; Recent Trends in Illegal Logging and a Brief Discussion of Their Causes: A Case Study from Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia; Community-Based Logging and De Facto Decentralization: Illegal Logging in the Gunung Palung Area of West Kalimantan, Indonesia; Combating Corruption and Illegal Logging in Benin, West Africa: Recommendations for Forest Sector Reform; INTERVENTION...

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• Authors: Ilmi M E Granoff, ILMI M. E. Granoff, Ilmi M.E. Granoff, Carrie A Magee, Carrie A. Magee, Ramsay M Ravenel, Ramsay M (Marshall Street Management Ravenel, Ramsay M E Granoff Ravenel, Ramsay M. Ravenel, Ramsay M. (EDT)/ Granoff Ravenel, Ramsay M. Granoff Ravenel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2005
• EAN: 9781560221173
• ISBN: 978-1-56022-117-3
• No. of pages: 393
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Forestry, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, Forestry & related industries, Environmental Management, Conservation of the environment, Forestry industry