This paper draws on a case study of the Brazilian Amazon to assess how two widely
promoted strategies to govern tropical forests–non-state certification and state-based legality …

Production forests are a dominant feature of most tropical forest landscapes and it is
therefore important to understand the effects of timber extraction on the resident fauna. Here …

Global Environmental Sustainability: Case Studies and Analysis of the United Nations'
Journey toward Sustainable Development presents an integrated, interdisciplinary analysis …

The world's problems--climate change, epidemics, and the actions of multinational
corporations--are increasingly global in scale and beyond the ability of any single state to …

Resumo The Public Forest Management Law (PFML), enacted in 2006, establishes the
foundation for sustainable management of these areas through forest concessions. This …

Recent scholarship has urged increased attention to how advances in geographical
information systems (GIS) technology can more equitably help to bridge gaps between the …

This paper is a meta‐study of local forest management experiences in developing countries
drawn from a review of 56 case‐studies presented in 52 papers. Many case‐studies report …

Andiroba (Carapa guianensis) is a multiple-use tree species that plays a crucial
socioeconomic role across thousands of Amazonian traditional and indigenous …

Concern about deforestation has been focused primarily upon the tropics. In the past, this
was motivated largely by concern about the potential for loss of the enormous biodiversity …

This objective of this study is to trace the impact of different approaches advocated to reach
the objective of zero deforestation value chains (ZD-VC). The study uses the concepts of …