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Controlling illegal logging in domestic and international markets by harnessing multi-level governance opportunities

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Illegal logging is perceived to pose significant obstacles to the achievement of sustainable management of forests in the tropics. Equally importantly, it gives rise to or supports other undesirable outcomes – networks of corruption, generating significant volumes of “black” money and fuelling speculation, crime, or trafficking. However, illegal logging of tropical timber is not homogeneous and its characteristics depend, among others, on the supplying markets, at the national or the international scales. Available approaches to reduce illegal logging, at different levels of governance, in the producing and consuming countries are reviewed and their potential contribution is assessed.

Source: International Journal of the Commons

DOI: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.327

Authors: Nalin Kishor, Guillaume Lescuyer

Institutions: World Bank, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

Language: English

Topic: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Life on land

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $938