00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000010611 20220614103359 0010-0622000082 ta 220614################g##########0#eng## 978-1-84407-607-9 363.25 363.25 ILL i Illegal Logging: Law Enforcement, Livelihoods, and the Timber Trade Illegal Logging : Law Enforcement, Livelihoods, and the Timber Trade / edited by Luca Tacconi London, Sterling : Earthscan, 2008 xvi, 301 pages ; 24 cm Logging--Economic aspects--Developing countries. Threre is limited knowledge available as to the major causes of illegal logging and its impacts on biodiversity, people and livelihoods and national economies, and thus plenty of speculation and action without evidence. It is clear that while illegal logging does have negative impacts, it also, controversially, and perhaps paradoxically, benefits many stakeholders, including local communities. This book examines the key issues including law and enforcement, supply and demand, corruption, forest certification, poverty, local livelihoods, international trade and biodiversity conservation. It includes key case studies from forest-rich hotspots in North, South and Central America, equatorial Africa and Indonesia. While there are clearly no easy answers, this book sorts fact from fiction and explores the many dimensions of the causes, impacts and implications for forests, people, livelihoods and forest policy. Logging--Corrupt practices--Developing countries. 25625/MKRI-P/II-2017