Logjam

by Humphreys, David

• ISBN13: 9781844073016
• ISBN10: 1844073017
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Winner of the International Studies Association's Harold and Margaret Sprout Award 2008 for the best book on international environmental problems. In this timely book, David Humphreys, author of Forest Politics, extends his analysis of the main political developments in forest governance over the last decade including recent 2005 and 2006 negotiations at the UN. Humphreys shows how the unwillingness of many governments and businesses to grapple with the causes of deforestation has rendered the UN largely ineffective in protecting the public goods value of forests. As a result the crisis of deforestation has deepened. He tracks all the main intergovernmental forest processes and follows the creation of novel mechanisms to address forest certification and illegal logging, but argues that they alone cannot solve the problem. He concludes by suggesting some policy innovations to address one of the most pressing environmental problems of our age.

Author Biography

David Humphreys is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy at the Open University UK

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Boxes	p. viii
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiv
Acknowledgements	p. xx
Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xxii
Forests as Public Goods	p. 1
Intergovernmental Panel on Forests	p. 22
World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development	p. 48
Intergovernmental Forum on Forests	p. 66
United Nations Forum on Forests	p. 91
The Certification Wars	p. 116
New Policies to Counter Illegal Logging	p. 142
The World Bank's Forests Strategy	p. 168
The International Forests Regime	p. 190
The Crisis of Global Governance	p. 214
Notes	p. 236
Index	p. 292
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