World Rainforest Movement

Underlying causes of deforestation

• Articles published in the WRM Bulletin
• Links
• What are underlying causes?
• Analysis on Underlying Causes

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN

2006

• Excessive paper consumption: The impacts of injustice
• Costa Rica: Gringos landing at Tortuga Landing

2004

• Burma: Forests for Export to China
• Liberia: A Proposal From Liberian Civil Society to Reform the Forest Sector

2003

• Sri Lanka: The US Tropical Forestry Conservation Act, a question of sovereignty
• Venezuela: Government plan endangers the Imataca forest
• Cambodia: Rubber plantation, deforestation and corruption
• Uganda: Deforestation, corruption and the false solution of plantations
• Mexico: The loss of forests for the community and for women
• Samoa: Workshop on the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation

2002

• Aotearoa: Underlying Causes of Deforestation analysed at Indigenous Peoples Workshop
• Panama: Eco-tourism alternative developed by the Kuna people
• The "tree armies" as seen by Eduardo Galeano
• Liberia: The long chain of responsibility in forest destruction
• Kenya: Forest degradation and the way ahead for conservation efforts
• Brazil: The least publicised yet most endangered Atlantic Forest
• Ecuador: Forests and biodiversity are being privatised
• Thailand: Displaced peoples wrongly blamed for forest destruction
• Brazil: Aggravated deforestation rates in Amazonian forests
• Argentina: The end of the Green Corridor?
• Kenya: Forest destruction for the benefit of government cronies
• Stopping human rights abuses is key to solving forest crisis
• Mexico: Deforestation progresses, but not the measures to prevent it
• The International Monetary Fund: a major actor in deforestation

2001

• Sri Lanka: Deforestation, women and forestry
• Zambia: Causes of deforestation linked to government policies
• The need to listen to and learn from local communities
• Tonga: The underlying causes of forest loss

1999

• Malawi: too many people?
• Cameroon: EU fosters rainforest destruction
• Mitch effects and deforestation in Nicaragua
• Globalization and WTO promote forests destruction
• Costa Rica: all that glitters is not gold
• Addressing deforestation and forest degradation: now a matter of political will
• The synthesis report to the Global Workshop
• Comments on the synthesis report
• Reflections on the Global Workshop's conclusions

1998

• International discourse and on-the-ground reality
• Underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation

LINKS

• Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF)

• Report of the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Panel on Forests on its fourth session / paragraph about Underlying Causes