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  Trade and forests: why forest issues require attention in trade negotiations

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper attempts to assess the impacts of trade negotiations on natural tropical forests, taking into account the context and regional dynamics both within and outside the forest sector.Findings:further liberalisation for agricultural products is likely to have a significant impact on forest areas, encouraging increased conversion to agricultural landWTO decisions on ecolabelling
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  The World Trade Organization and forests

  World Rainforest Movement, 2002

  This paper assesses the impact of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the future of forests. It presents information from the stand point that there is a need to radically modify, what it terms as, the current corporate-led approach to international trade.It presents arguments on free trade vs.
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  Controlling imports of illegal timber: options for Europe

  Fern, 2002

  The authors of this paper examine what the European Commission and member states can do to address the problems caused by illegal logging. They focus particularly on trade, finance, and procurement issues, although they briefly discuss efforts to strengthen the capacity of national institutions in developing countries.
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  Controlling the international trade in illegally logged timber and wood products

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002

  This report examines how importing/consuming governments might establish and operate a system for denying market access to timber and wood products produced and exported illegally. It covers processes and procedures for identifying illegal timber, methods for denying markey access to those products, effective forms of international co-operation and the implications for WTO trade rules.
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  Intergovernmental actions on illegal logging: options for intergovernmental action to help combat illegal logging and illegal trade in timber and forest products

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2001

  This report presents a brief overview of the range of options for intergovernmental action to help combat illegal logging and trade in illegal timber and forest products. Actions by individual producer and consumer governments could be complemented by international collaboration.
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  International trade in forest products and the environment (Bourke / Unasylva)

  Unasylva, FAO, 1999
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  Indigenous knowledge and institutions bibliography (Indiana)

  Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 1999
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  Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
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  NAFTA Supplemental Agreements: Four Year Review

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998

  Examines the objectives and accomplishments to date of the NAAEC and the NAALC.1 It also includes a discussion of the USA-Mexico Border Environmental Cooperation Agreement (BECA) which was designed to address environmental infrastructure problems in the US-Mexican border region.
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  Who owns the ecosystem?

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  Paper is about how human society organizes its proprietary relationship to the biosphere and, in particular, the property implications of ecosystem management. Our premise is that ecosystem management is endangered by its "bigger-is-better" bias, the potential source of public backlash among landowners.

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