Logjam Deforestation and the Crisis of Global Governance [Paperback]

Winner of the International Studies Association's Harold and Margaret Sprout Award 2008 for the best book on international environmental problems.This pioneering study examines the impacts of neoliberal global governance on forests and provides an exhaustive overview of international forest politics:Intergovernmental Panel on ForestsWorld Commission on Forests and Sustainable DevelopmentIntergovernmental Forum on ForestsUnited Nations Forum on ForestsForest CertificationNew policies to address illegal loggingWorld Bank's forests strategyConvention on Biological Diversity - and other international forest-related processesThe book is an essential reference for students of global environmental politics and required reading for forest policy makers. It concludes by arguing for a democratization of global governance and a fundamental restructuring of the regulatory environment so that final decision making authority is restored to the local level. Driven by concern at what forest loss means for communities and future generations, this is a book that stands to make a difference.Forests as Public Goods * Intergovernmental Panel on Forests * World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development * Intergovernmental Forum on Forests * United Nations Forum on Forests * The Certification Wars * New Policies to Counter Illegal Logging * The World Bank's Forests Strategy * The International Forests Regime * The Crisis of Global Governance * IndexThe most thorough analysis so far on international forest processes. The arguments and information put forward will be of high interest for both policy makers and future researchers'Birger Solberg, Professor of Forest Economics, Norwegian University of Life Sciences and first Director, European Forest Institute (1993 - 1996)'Provides a broad, historical perspective on international forest politics and policies. David Humphreys is one of the few people who has an overview of all the international processes concerning forests...I found thlCD