Forests and Development

Local, National and Global Issues
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-49815-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 343 g

Reihe: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

This book is a fully up to date study of the major issues facing forest conservation and the forestry industry, which considers developments at local, national and global levels. Environmental and development topics relating to each level are discussed – for instance, the use of forest products in a rural poverty context, corruption and forest harvesting and consumption as a political device.

Delacote employs a quantitative approach in order to analyse the plight of tropical forests in the developing world, and in doing so produces a range of interesting conclusions. This methodology fills a crucial research gap in existing studies of forests in a development context – increased use of theoretical tools to interpret real life situations might be beneficial to the field. Therefore, the first objective of this book is to provide a sample of theoretical analysis concerning the forests and development nexus. The second objective is to supply empirical economists with new theoretical insights, with the hope that those results can emerge with conclusive field testing and relevant policy recommendations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delacote, Philippe

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Local: Forests and People 1. Agricultural Expansion, Forest Products as Safety Nets and Deforestation 2. Commons as Insurance: Poverty Traps or Safety Nets? Part 3: National: Forest Management, Corruption and Illegal Logging 3. How Concessions’ Size May Influence Systemic Corruption in Forest Harvesting: A theoretical Assessment Part 4: Is Timber Harvesting Related to Deforestation? On the Unsustainable Nature of Timber Harvesting Part 5: Global: Citizen Consumption 5. Political Consumerism and Public Policy: Good Complements against Market Failures? 6. On the Sources of Consumer Boycotts Ineffectiveness

Über Autor(innen)

Philippe Delacote is a Researcher in Environmental Economics at the Laboratory of Forest Economics (INRA, Nancy, France).