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Selected Recent Literature on the
Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation
by Marcus Colchester, Forest Peoples Programme - Angelsen, Arild and Kaimowitz, David (1997) What can we learn from economic models of deforestation? CIFOR, email. 30 page version. - Barlow, Kathleen and Winduo, Steven (Eds.) (1997) Logging in Southwestern Pacific: perspectives from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The Contemporary Pacific: a journal of island affairs (special issue) 9(1):1-193. - Barraclough, Solon L., and Ghimire, Krishna B., Forests and Livelihoods: the social dynamics of deforestation in developing countries. MacMillan Press, London. - Bass, S. and Hearne, R.R. (1997) Private sector forestry: a review of instruments for ensuring sustainability. Forestry and Land Use Series No. 11. IIED, London. 62 pages. - Brown, K. & Pearce, D.W. (eds) (1994) The Causes of Tropical Deforestation. The economic and statistical analysis of factors giving rise to the loss of the tropical forests. UCL Press. 338 pages. - Colchester, Marcus (1997) National Sovereignty, Free Trade and Forest Peoples' Rights: breaking an international logjam?. Article prepared for the Finnish Forest Action Group's proposed publication on 'Finland and the Forests of the World'. Forest Peoples Programme, Moreton-in-Marsh. 14 pages. - Colchester, Marcus (1994) Slave and Enclave: the political ecology of Equatorial Africa. World Rainforest Movement, Penang. - Colchester, Marcus (1995) Forest Politics in Suriname. World Rainforest Movement and International Boosk, Utrecht. - Colchester, Marcus (1997) Guyana Fragile Frontier. Loggers, Miners and Forest Peoples. Latin America Bureau & WRM. 171 pages. - Colchester, Marcus and Lohmann, Larry (Eds.) (1993) The Struggle for Land and the Fate of the Forest. World Rainforest Movement and Zed Books, London and Penang. - Dubois, Olivier (1997) Rights and Wrongs of Rights to Land and Forest Resources in sub-Saharan Africa. Bridging the gap between customary and formal rules. Forest Participation Series. No.10. IIED. 34 pages. - Dudley, N. et al. (eds) (1995) Bad Harvest? The Timber Trade and the Degradation of the World's Forests. WWF and - Earthscan Publications Ltd. 204 pages. Egbe, Samuel (1997) Forest Tenure and Access to forest Resources in Cameroon. An Overview. Forest Participation Series. No.6. IIED, London. 26 pages. - FAO (1997) State of the World's Forests 1997. FAO. 200 pages. - Fearnside, Philip (1997) Environmental services as a strategy for sustainable development in rural Amazonia. Ecological Economics 20: 53-70. - Fearnside, Philip (1997) Transmigration in Indonesia: Lessons from its Environmental and Social Impacts. Environmental Management 21(4): 553-570. - Fearnside, Philip (1996) The Cotingo Dam as a Test of Brazil's System of Evaluating Proposed Developments in Amazonia. Environmental Management 20(5): 631-648. - Fearnside, Philip and Barbosa, Reinaldo Imbrozio (1996) Political Benefits as Barrier to Assessment of Environmental Costs in Brazil's Amazonian Development Planning: the example of the Jatapu Dam in Roraima. Environmental Management 20(5): 615-630. - Filer, Colin (ed.) (1997) The Political Economy of Forest Management in Papua New Guinea. NRI Monograph 32. National Research Institute and IIED, London. 517 pages. - Gibson, Clark C., McKean, Margaret A., and Ostrom, Elinor (1996) Explaining Deforestation: the role of local institutions. Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University. - Hobley, Mary (1996) Participatory forestry: The Process of Change in India and Nepal. Rural Development Forestry Study Guide 3. Overseas Development Institute, London. 337 pages. - Humphreys, David (1996) Forest Politics. The Evolution of International Cooperation. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London. 299 pages. - Jeanrenaud, Sally (1997) Perspectives in People-Oriented Conservation. In arborvitae Supplement February 1997. WWF and IUCN, Gland. - Penelon, Alain (1997) Community Forestry. It may be indeed a New Management Tool, but is it Accessible? Two case studies in Eastern-Cameroon. Forest Participation Series. No.8. IIED, London. 18 pages. - Palo, M. and Mery, G. (eds) (1996) Sustainable Forestry Challenges for Developing Countries. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. 384 pages. - Richards, Michael (1997) Missing a Moving Target? Colonist Technology Development on the Amazon Frontier. Overseas Development Institute, London. - Richards, Paul (1996) Fighting for the Rain Forest. War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone. The International African Institute. 182 pages. - Rudel, Tom and Roper, Jill (1997) The Paths to Rainforest Destruction: Crossnational Patterns of Tropical Deforestation, 1975-90. World Development. Pergamon Press. - Sponsel, L.E. et al. (eds) (1996) Tropical Deforestation. The Human Dimension. Columbia University Press, New York. 365 pages. - Wily, Liz (1997) Villages as Forest Managers and governments "Learning to Let Go". The case of Duru-Haitemba & Mgori forests in Tanzania. Forest Participation Series. No.9. IIED, London. 22 pages. |
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