Illegal logging : law enforcement, livelihoods and the timber trade

摘要: Threre is limited knowledge available as to the major causes of illegal logging and its impacts on biodiversity, people livelihoods national economies, thus plenty speculation action without evidence. It clear that while does have negative impacts, it also, controversially, perhaps paradoxically, benefits many stakeholders, including local communities. This book examines key issues law enforcement, supply demand, corruption, forest certification, poverty, livelihoods, international trade biodiversity conservation. includes case studies from forest-rich hotspots in North, South Central America, equatorial Africa Indonesia. While there are clearly no easy answers, this sorts fact fiction explores dimensions causes, implications for forests, people, policy.