Resources

Bibliography compiled by Lorena Ibargüen Tinley in 2004. A-Z by country and subject:

• Africa
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Certification
• CITES
• Communities
• Concessions
• Corruption
• Deforestation
• Ecuador
• FLEG
• Forest Crimes
• Forest Law
• Forest Law Enforcement
• Forest Policy
• Forests
• Global Witness
• Governance
• Illegal Logging
• Illegal Timber Trade
• Independent Forest Monitoring
• Indonesia
• Kimberley Process
• Law Enforcement
• Monitoring
• Participation
• Philippines
• Trade

Also on this site

• Rural livelihoods, forest law and the illegal timber trade in Honduras and Nicaragua
  A. Wells, F. Del Gatto, M. Richards, D. Pommier & A. Contreras-Hermosilla, Paper in the series 'Forest law enforcement and rural livelihoods, CIFOR, Bogor, 2004.

Contreras-Hermosilla, A. 2000, The underlying causes of forest decline , Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Abstract: Underlying causes of deforestation and degradation originate in some of the most basic features of society, such as the distribution of economic and political power, attitudes towards corruption, population growth, flaws in the market system, and also in seemingly unrelated government policies. They may originate in other countries and transmit their effects through trade and the operation of transnational corporations
Keywords: communities/corruption/deforestation/illegal timber trade/trade/Verifor Bibliography /Project - SO140

Contreras, H. & Global Witness 2003, Emerging best practices for combating illegal activities in the forest sector
Abstract: This document examines some of the most important options for combating illegal activities in the sector. The author points out that the proper application, sequencing and/or feasibility of the actions proposed will depend on each country's political, social and economic context. Some of the actions mentioned are:

• simplifying norms and reducing their number
• clear property rights
• certification schemes
• independent forest monitoring
• increased information and disseminate knowledge / collection of baseline data
• bilateral agreements

Keywords: certification/governance/illegal timber trade/independent forest monitoring/trade/Verifor Bibliography /Project - SO140

Development Alternatives Inc. 1998, Results of the national assessment on illegal logging, processing and timber exports in Cambodia. Log monitoring and logging control project. Submitted to royal Government of Cambodia. Ministry of Economy and Finance & Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Abstract: This report is a preliminary assessment of the sale of illegal logging in Cambodia from November 1997 to February 1998. It includes research methodology, calculation on the volume of illegal timber traded in 1997, a summary of the illegal activities in the commercial forestry sector, descriptions of the main illegal export routs, the conditions facilitating illegal logs and sawn wood exports, and introduction to the key stakeholders and four regional reports which highlight the differences in the illegal timber trade between regions
Keywords: Cambodia/illegal logging/illegal timber trade/monitoring/trade/Verifor Bibliography /Project - SO140