Forests and Development

Local, National and Global Issues

Philippe Delacote (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

146 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-22486-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Delacote employs a quantitative approach in order to analyse the plight of tropical forests in the developing world, and in doing so produces a range of interesting conclusions. This methodology fills a crucial research gap in existing studies of forests in a development context – increased use of theoretical tools to interpret real life situations might be beneficial to the field. Therefore, the first objective of this book is to provide a sample of theoretical analysis concerning the forests and development nexus. The second objective is to supply empirical economists with new theoretical insights, with the hope that those results can emerge with conclusive field testing and relevant policy recommendations.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	22.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
Zusatzinfo	20 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	204 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-138-22486-3 / 1138224863
ISBN-13	978-1-138-22486-5 / 9781138224865
Zustand	Neuware