Illegal logging is a cause for widespread concern. It has negative environmental impacts, results in the loss of forest products used by rural communities, creates conflicts, and causes significant losses of tax revenues that could be used for development activities. The Nature Conservancy and Wo...
Tacconi, L.
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Obidzinski, K.
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Agung, F.
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[Learning lessons to promote forest certification and control illegal logging in Indonesia]
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Learning lessons to promote forest certification and control illegal logging in Indonesia
Illegal activities are one of the most pressing problems facing the Indonesian forest sector today. The debate on illegal forest activities has focused primarily on legal and governance issues. Economic forces, however, are increasingly recognized as fundamental drivers of illegal forest activiti...
Tacconi, L.
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Obidzinski, K.
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Smith, J.
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Subarudi
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Suramenggala, I.
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[Can 'legalization' of illegal forest activities reduce illegal logging?: lessons from East Kalimantan]
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Can 'legalization' of illegal forest activities reduce illegal logging?: lessons from East Kalimantan
Colchester, M.
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Boscolo, M.
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Contreras-Hermosilla, A.
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Gatto, F.D.
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Dempsey, J.
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Lescuyer, G.
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Obidzinski, K.
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Pommier, D.
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Richards, Meryl
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Sembiring, S.S.
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Tacconi, L.
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Rios, M.T.S.
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Wells, A.
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[Justice in the forest: rural livelihoods and forest law enforcement]
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Justice in the forest: rural livelihoods and forest law enforcement
Concern about illegal logging has grown considerably over the past decade due to the interest in its environmental impacts, and more recently as a result of its perceived impacts on livelihoods. The authors find that the reality of illegal logging is much more nuanced than has been depicted and t...
As of mid-2008, 63 of the 101 available forest management units (FMUs) in Cameroon were managed according to approved management plans, and seven FMUs had received a FSC certification. This paper provides a preliminary assessment of the volumetric and financial variations incurred by logging comp...
Cerutti, P.O.
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Tacconi, L.
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Nasi, Robert
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[Trading legality with precaution: preliminary impacts of management plans and forest certification in the Cameroonian forests.]
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Trading legality with precaution: preliminary impacts of management plans and forest certification in the Cameroonian forests.
Threre is limited knowledge available as to the major causes of illegal logging and its impacts on biodiversity, people and livelihoods and national economies, and thus plenty of speculation and action without evidence. It is clear that while illegal logging does have negative impacts, it also, c...
Tacconi, L.
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[Illegal logging: law enforcement, livelihoods and the timber trade]
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Illegal logging: law enforcement, livelihoods and the timber trade
Fires are considered a potential threat to sustainable development for their direct impacts on ecosystems, their contribution to carbon emissions, and impacts on biodiversity. In 1997/98, Indonesia had the most severe fires worldwide, and smoke haze pollution recurs yearly. The fire-related polic...
The concept of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) has a pivotal role for both the Cameroonian legal framework and market-based instruments such as forest certification. We assess the different impacts on timber harvesting of the forest legal framework as compared to the adoption of forest certif...
Cerutti, P.O.
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Tacconi, L.
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Nasi, Robert
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Lescuyer, G.
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[Legal vs. certified timber: preliminary impacts of forest certification in Cameroon]
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Legal vs. certified timber: preliminary impacts of forest certification in Cameroon
Tacconi, L.
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Moore, P.F.
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Kaimowitz, D.
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[Fires in tropical forests - what is really the problem?: lessons from Indonesia]
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Fires in tropical forests - what is really the problem?: lessons from Indonesia
A case study from the central extensive peatland sections of the Middle Mahakam Area, East Kalimantan, is used to depic how local use of fire for agriculture extraction activities could be a major factor driving peatland transformation. Large-scale fires that occured in the area in 1982/83 and 19...
Chokkalingam, U.
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Tacconi, L.
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Ruchiat, Y.
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[Fire use, peatland transformation and local livelihoods: a case of positive reinforcement]
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Fire use, peatland transformation and local livelihoods: a case of positive reinforcement