Pre-project Report on Incentives in Producer and Consumer Countries to Promote Sustainable Development of Tropical Forests
Author: Oxford Forestry Institute
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 80
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Author: Oxford Forestry Institute
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: International Tropical Timber Organization
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 71
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chris Elliott
Publisher: CIFOR
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9798764560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper analyses the development of certification programmes in three countries (Indonesia, Canada and Sweden) using the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) as a theoretical reference point. The ACF is an actor-based framework for analysing policy processes and has not previously been applied in a developing country. Actors in the three countries took different approaches to certification. In Canada, in a programme development process supported by the forest products industry, a management systems approach was taken. In Sweden, performance standards were developed in a process initially driven by NGOs. In Indonesia, certification was led by an NGO within a framework established by government, and a performance standards approach was used. The paper concludes that forest certification can be best understood as a policy instrument that promotes and facilitates policy-orientated learning among actors, and provides indirect incentives for improved forest management. Learning occurs both as the standards to be used for certification are developed, and as they are implemented. The benefits of learning and consensus building among actors (such as NGOs, forest companies, private forest owners, indigenous peoples, governments, etc.) who have traditionally been in conflict with each other can be significant. On the other hand, where fundamental changes in forest policy (such as tenure and forest revenue reform) are needed, certification should not be seen as a substitute for these A further conclusion is that, while public policies change over periods of decades, the private policies of retailers and forest product companies can adapt more rapidly to changing circumstances. The concept of a ‘fast track’ of private policy change, compared to the slower track of governmental policy change, is therefore proposed and described. A number of interesting theoretical and empirical avenues for further research on certification are discussed.
Author: Edward B Barbier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-09
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1000709078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1994, The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade provides a detailed analysis of the economic linkages between the trade and forest degradation. Based on a report prepared for the ITTO, it looks current and future market conditions at the time of publication, and assesses the impacts on current and future market conditions, and assesses the impacts on tropical forests of both the international timber trade and domestic demand. The authors examine the causes of deforestation and compare the environmental impacts of the timber trade with other factors, such as the conversion of the forests to agriculture. Finally, they assess the national and international trade policy options, and discuss the potential role of interventions in the international timber trade in promoting efficient and sustainable use of forest resources. The book will be of interest to those concerned with forest management and policy, trade and environment, and with the economics of conversation and resource use.
Author: Gerry Nagtzaam
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 184980348X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerry Nagtzaam contends that in recent decades neoliberal institutionalist scholarship on global environmental regimes has burgeoned, as has constructivist scholarship on the key role played by norms in international politics. In this innovative volume, the author sets these interest- and norm-based approaches against each other in order to test their ability to illustrate why and how different environmental norms take hold in some regimes and not others. The book explores why some global environmental treaties seek to preserve and protect some parts of nature from human utilization, some seek to conserve certain parts of nature for human development, whilst others allow the reckless exploitation of nature without accounting for the consequences. It tracks the fate of these three underlying environmental norms preservation, conservation and exploitation using case studies on whaling, mining in Antarctica and tropical timber. The book illustrates how international political battles to shape environmental regimes inevitably result in clashes between these competing environmental norms. This unique study will prove a fascinating read for both academics and practitioners in the fields of international environmental politics and international environmental law.
Author: R. H. Kemp
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9789251033098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nature of forest genetic resources. Impacts of management in production forests. The future of tropical forests. Strategies for in situ conservation in production forests. Case studies: Ghana. Brazil: the Amazon forests. India: the Western Ghat forests, Karnataka.
Author: Mark Imber
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-12
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1134827792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironmental issues and questions of global change are now firmly established on the international political agenda. This book provides a wide-ranging survey of the current treatment of environmental issues in international relations. This book begins by looking at the relevance of the different theoretical approaches current in international relations to the study of the environment. It analyzses a wide range of approaches from the debate between neo-realism and liberal institutionalism to the significant connections between gender and global environmental change. The book goes on to consider a range of key international processes, discussing the monitoring and implementation of environmental agreements, the place of ideology in negotiations and the role of international organisations.
Author: F. Gale
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998-09-14
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0230371523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGale explains why international negotiations have not produced a sustainable solution to tropical rainforest degradation. Using an innovative, critical approach to international regimes, the author analyzes the structure and operation of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). He shows how the timber industry and producing- and consuming-country governments created a blocking alliance that favoured developmentalist interests and ideas. The ITTO bolstered this alliance by permitting environmentalists merely to voice, but not to negotiate, their concerns.
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1994-07
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 0788110470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katrina Brown
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-26
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1000924688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique – a form of ‘environ-metrics’ – to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated, and attributed to causes as varied as poverty, external debt, multinational logging companies, government corruption, the IMF, population growth, and non-sustainable agriculture.