Illegal Logging in the Tropics

Strategies for Cutting Crime
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-56022-117-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Examine why illegal logging is so pervasiveand how this problem can be addressed

In March 2002, the Yale chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters brought together social and natural scientists, resource managers, policymakers, community leaders, and other interested parties to share experiences, strategies, successes, and failures in addressing illegal logging and corruption. The results were the conference Illegal Logging in Tropical Forests: Ecology, Economics, and Politics of Resource Misuse and this book, which brings together analyses from the perspectives, of anthropology, economics, forestry, law, political science, and sociology.

Illegal Logging in the Tropics: Strategies for Cutting Crime suggests specific policy interventions aimed at curbing illegal logging and identifying solutions to forest crime. It presents both thematic analyses of illegal logging at the global level and case studies on both the local and national levels in African, Latin American, and Asian countries. The contributors draw on their experiences in Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Vietnam.

Illegal Logging in the Tropics: Strategies for Cutting Crime examines:

- global governancewith a cross-country regression analysis of deforestation and various aspects of governance

- global forest tradewith extensive reviews of data on global trade in forest products

- community perspectives on illegal loggingincluding a system dynamics model of villagers’ willingness to log, a description of community involvement in broader networks of illegal trade, and a chapter that challenges the credibility of illegality as defined by a corrupt government or agency

- the efforts of NGOs to combat illegal logging

- how illegal logging is typically symptomatic of broader failures of governance Specific chapters in Illegal Logging in the Tropics: Strategies for Cutting Crime investigate:

- the role of monitoring in cutting forest crime

- whether illegal logging is better combated via law enforcement or by local communitieswith pros and cons for each approach

- the proximate causes of illegal logging, including access to forests and equipment, and economic factors

- the efforts of Transparency Internationala widely lauded organization combating corruptionto address illegal logging at the international policy level In addition, this valuable resource provides you with an essential overview of the literature on illegal logging, an in-depth analysis of the incentive structures that bring local residents to commit forest crimes, and a great deal more. Let Illegal Logging in the Tropics: Strategies for Cutting Crime be your guide to the intricacies of this increasingly urgent issue.

Zielgruppe

Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ravenel, Ramsay M.

Granoff, Ilmi M.E.

Magee, Carrie A.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Forstwirtschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ramsay M Ravenel, Marshall Street Management, South Norwalk, USA. Ilmi M E Granoff. Carrie A Magee, The New Jersey Tree Foundation, Camden, USA.