The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol raised the hopes of many, that payment for carbon sequestration services would provide a significant incentive for sustainable management practices in industrial forestry in tropical countries. Data to assess how realistic these hopes ar...
Smith, J.
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Applegate, G.
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[Trading forest carbon to promote the adoption of reduced impact logging]
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Trading forest carbon to promote the adoption of reduced impact logging
Several Indonesian plywood industry companies involved in logging are beginning to adopt improved harvesting practices. A number of organizations and individuals have undertaken analyses of the costs and impacts of implementing selected reduced impact logging (RIL) components. These analyses incl...
This paper highlights how early experience gained in north Queensland rainforests provided input to the development of Pacific island codes and the code of conduct for logging of indigenous forests in selected South Pacific countries in the mid-1990s. In a number of these countries, the developme...
Applegate, G.
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[Codes of practice and reduced impact logging in tropical forests: an overview]
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Codes of practice and reduced impact logging in tropical forests: an overview