Year: 2006
Type: book
Abstract: Key points• Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) has become a favoured policy approach for addressing illegal logging.However, the social implications of this approach have not received much attention, in part because the extent of forest-based livelihoods is often under-appreciated.• An exploratory survey of five countries shows how laws related to forests are often contradictory and restrict livelihoods.They tend to be selectively applied in favour of large-scale forestry and framed to favour dominant interests.As a result, the livelihoods of many forest-dependent poor people are rendered technically illegal.• Law enforcement approaches that rely on cracking down on those using forests contrary to existing laws can reinforce social exclusion and entrench unjust laws and policy frameworks.• Illegal forest use is often enmeshed in local and national political economies and systems of patronage.Addressing illegal logging without taking these patronage networks into account can be risky or counter-productive.• Crude forest law enforcement measures often target small-scale violators rather than large, politically protected and illegal operators.
Author: CIFOR
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4233368770