Philippe Delacote

Forests and Development

Local, National and Global Issues

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 195g
• ISBN-13: 9781138224865
• ISBN-10: 1138224863
• Artikelnr.: 49777363

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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