Search

Searching with a thematic focus on forestry deforestation, Environment and Forestry, Environment, forestry deforestation causes

Showing 1-10 of 29 results

Pages

• Organisation

  WWF Brazil (WWF)

  WWF Brazil is a Brazilian NGO, participant and an international network committed to nature conservation within the social and economic environment in Brazil.
• Document

  Charcoal the Reality: A study of charcoal consumption, trade and production in Malawi

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007

  Charcoal industry is one of the largest in Malawi. Among its  four largest urban areas, the volume of charcoal consumed represents one-third of the annual deforestation in Malawi.
• Document

  Corruption and forest revenues in Papua

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008

  This paper notes that under a sustainable, well-managed, logging regime, Papua – the most densely forested part of Indonesia – can potentially contribute substantial forest revenues for socio-economic development. Yet, it remains the poorest region in the country, in part due to widespread corruption involving public and private actors.
• Document

  The cattle realm: a new phase in the livestock colonization of Brazilian Amazonia

  Amazonia, 2008

  Ranching in the Amazon spread at an unprecedented rate over the last five years. This brief documents this recent growth and argues that it now requires additional and undivided attention on the part of government authorities, the market chain, financial institutions, scientists and civil society organisations.
• Document

  The Amazon’s vicious cycles: drought and fire in the greenhouse - ecological and climatic tipping points of the world’s largest tropical rainforest, and practical preventive measures

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2007

  The Amazon forest greatly influences the global climate and may be coming under increasing threat due to climate change. This report explores the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the changes in this relationship that are underway as a result of forest destruction and the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.
• Document

  The formation of the Brazilian environmental movement

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  Drawing on new perspectives for analysing social movements, this paper blends a variety of concepts – political opportunity structure, micro-mobilisation contexts, collective identity formation, framing processes and mobilising strategies – to examine the formation of the Brazilian environmental movement from the 1970s through to the 1990s.
• Document

  Partners in crime: the UK timber trade, Chinese sweatshops and Malaysian robber barons in Papua New Guinea’s rainforest

  Greenpeace International, 2005

  This document traces the production of Chinese hardwood and plywood from its origins in the forests of Papua New Guinea to the sweatshops of China and on to British builders and merchants.Based on investigations by Greenpeace, the document accuses the UK timber trade of fuelling illegal production of plywood and hardwood thus encouraging the destruction of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests.
• Document

  A choice for China: ending the destruction of Burma’s northern frontier forests

  Global Witness, 2005

  This report argues for an end to unsustainable and destructive illegal logging in Burma’s north forests. Whilst the logging itself is mostly managed by relevant authorities in Burma, much of the timber is exported illegally to China.
• Document

  The oil for ape scandal: how palm oil is threatening orang-utan survival

  Friends of the Earth, 2005

  This report discusses the imminent threat of extinction to orang-utan in Malaysia and Indonesia bought about by the production of palm oil (a source of vegetable oil).
• Document

  Indigenous control and sustainability of common resources in the hills of North East India

  Gauhati University, Assam, India, 2005

  The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India, enacted fifty years ago, allows autonomy to tribal communities in administrative, legislative and financial matters and was supposed to protect them from domination and exploitation by external forces.

Pages