Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Introduction to Illegal Logging in the Tropics PROBLEM DESCRIPTION Undercutting Sustainability: The Global Problem of Illegal Logging and Trade THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING FOREST GOVERNANCE A System Dynamics Examination of the Willingness of Villagers to Engage in Illegal Logging; Does Improved Governance Contribute To Sustainable Forest Management? Illegal Logging and Local Democracy: Between Communitarianism and Legal Fetishism; You Say Illegal, I Say Legal: The Relationship Between 'Illegal' Logging and Land Tenure, Poverty, and Forest Use Rights in Vietnam; Can 'Legalization' of Illegal Forest Activities Reduce Illegal Logging? Lessons from East Kalimantan; STUDIES Social and Environmental Costs of Illegal Logging in a Forest Management Unit in Eastern Cameroon; Recent Trends in Illegal Logging and a Brief Discussion of Their Causes: A Case Study from Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia; Community-Based Logging and De Facto Decentralization: Illegal Logging in the Gunung Palung Area of West Kalimantan, Indonesia; Combating Corruption and Illegal Logging in Benin, West Africa: Recommendations for Forest Sector Reform; INTERVENTION

About the Author

Ramsay M Ravenel, Marshall Street Management, South Norwalk, USA. Ilmi M E Granoff. Carrie A Magee, The New Jersey Tree Foundation, Camden, USA.