Global Environmental Forest Policies: An International Comparison (The Earthscan Forest Library)

✍ Scribed by Constance McDermott, Benjamin Cashore, Peter Kanowski

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 393
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a uniquely detailed and systematic comparison of environmental forest policies and enforcement in twenty countries worldwide, covering developed, transition and developing economies. The goal is to enhance global policy learning and promote well-informed and precisely-tuned policy solutions.Market globalization and the globalization of environmental concerns have spurred demand for greater international accountability for forest stewardship. In response, a range of multilateral governmental and non-governmental initiatives have emerged to redefine the rules of global trade, and demand verification of the legality and/or sustainability of forest products originating from within and outside national boundaries.At the same time there is a lack of transparency and shared understanding about the environmental forest policies that already exist within the world's leading forest producing and consuming countries. The result is that many stakeholders have developed perceptions about a country's regulatory environment that are not consistent with what is actually taking place.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 14
PART I Setting the Scene......Page 20
Introduction......Page 22
The importance of global forest policy comparisons......Page 23
Frameworks for comparative policy analysis......Page 26
Research design: The contextual and policy variables......Page 31
Notes......Page 44
References......Page 45
Case study selection......Page 54
Characteristics of case study countries in the global context......Page 59
Overview of country and sub-national case studies......Page 84
References......Page 85
PART II Regional Analyses......Page 88
Introduction......Page 90
Biodiversity conservation......Page 105
Forest practice regulations: Native forests......Page 114
Enforcement......Page 127
Forest certification......Page 131
Summary......Page 132
Key to tables 3.6-3.8......Page 133
Notes......Page 134
References......Page 135
Introduction......Page 144
Forests and forestry in Finland, Germany and Bavaria, Portugal and Sweden......Page 146
A comparison of biodiversity conservation measures......Page 158
Forest practice regulations: Native forests......Page 161
Enforcement......Page 166
Forest certification......Page 167
Summary......Page 168
References......Page 169
Introduction......Page 178
China......Page 179
Forest use and biodiversity conservation......Page 196
Forest practice regulations......Page 198
Enforcement......Page 203
Forest certification......Page 205
Notes......Page 206
References......Page 207
Introduction......Page 214
Biodiversity conservation......Page 223
Forest practice regulations: Natural forests......Page 224
Forest practice regulations: Plantations management......Page 230
Enforcement......Page 231
Forest certification......Page 232
Summary......Page 233
References......Page 234
Introduction......Page 240
Biodiversity conservation......Page 255
Forest practice regulations: Natural forests......Page 256
Forest practice regulations: Plantations......Page 259
Forest certification......Page 260
Summary......Page 262
References......Page 263
Introduction......Page 268
Biodiversity conservation......Page 277
Forest practice policies: Native forests......Page 281
Forest practice policies: Plantations......Page 293
Enforcement and compliance policies......Page 295
Forest certification......Page 297
Notes......Page 299
References......Page 301
Introduction......Page 308
Forest use and biodiversity conservation......Page 316
Forest practice regulations: Natural forests......Page 317
Forest practice regulations: Plantations......Page 319
Enforcement......Page 320
Forest certification......Page 321
Notes......Page 322
References......Page 323
PART III Summary and Conclusions......Page 326
Introduction......Page 328
Landscape-level biodiversity conservation measures......Page 329
Case study policy approaches to five key policy criteria in natural forests......Page 333
Case study policy approaches to plantation management......Page 348
Enforcement and compliance......Page 350
Forest certification......Page 353
Conclusion......Page 355
References......Page 357
Introduction......Page 360
The three puzzles......Page 362
Policy change, prescriptiveness and the trust paradox......Page 368
Strategic intervention and the California effect: How might market-based approaches interact with government policy to facilitate increased environmental forestry performance?......Page 371
Conclusion......Page 373
References......Page 376
Index......Page 380

✦ Subjects

Лесное дело и деревообработка;Лесоустройство и лесопользование;Лесоуправление и лесное законодательство;