Abstract
One of the most challenging tasks facing development
agencies, trade ministries, environmental groups, social
activists and forest-focused business interests seeking to
ameliorate illegal logging and related timber trade is to
identify and nurture promising global governance interventions capable of helping improve compliance to governmental policies and laws at national, subnational and local levels. This question is especially acute for developing
countries constrained by capacity challenges and “weak
states†(Risse, 2011). This chapter seeks to shed light on
this task by asking four related questions: How do we understand the emergence of illegal logging as a matter of
global interest? What are the types of global interventions
designed to improve domestic legal compliance? How have
individual states responded to these global efforts? What
are the prospects for future impacts and evolution?
We proceed in the following steps. Following this introduction, step two reviews how the problem of “illegal
logging†emerged on the international agenda. Step three
reviews leading policy interventions that resulted from
this policy framing. Step four reviews developments in
selected countries/regions around the world according
to their place on the global forest products supply chain:
consumers (United States, Europe and Australia); middle
of supply chain manufacturers (China and South Korea)
and producers (Russia; Indonesia; Brazil and Peru; Ghana,
Cameroon and the Republic of Congo). We conclude by reflecting on key trends that emerge from this review relevant
for understanding the conditions through which legality
might make a difference in addressing critical challenges.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Illegal Logging and Related Timber Trade – Dimensions, Drivers, Impacts and Responses |
Editors | Daniela Kleinschmit, Stephanie Mansourian, Christoph Wildburger, Andre Purret |
Place of Publication | Vienna |
Publisher | International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) |
Pages | 119-131 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-902762-70-2 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |