Natural Resources

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Forestry

Trade Liberalisation

America's Free Trade for Ilegal Timber - How US Trade Pacts Speed the Destruction of the World's Forests, June 2006.
By the Environmental Investigation Agency.

China and the Global Market for Forest Products: Transforming Trade to Benefit Forests and Livelihoods, March 2006
By Andy White, Xiufang Sun, Kerstin Canby, Jintao Xu, Christopher Barr, Eugenia Katsigris, Gary Bull, Christian Cossalter and Sten Nilsson

How can trade promote sustainable forest management?, forthcoming.
By the International Institute for Environment and Development.

Trading away our last ancient forests, December 2005.
By Greenpeace.

Sustainability Impact Assessment of Proposed WTO Negotiations: Final Report for the Forest Sector Study, 2005.
By Marko Katila and Markku Simula for the European Commission.

How to Hurdle the Barriers: Tropical Timber and Technical Barriers to Trade, 2005.
By Russell Taylor, Ivan Tomaselli and Lew Wing Hing.

Effects of the Free Trade Area of the Americas on Forest Resources, April 2005.
By James A. Turner, Joseph Buongiorno and Shushuai Zhu.

Trade and Sustainable Forest Management - Impacts and Interactions, 2004.
By FAO.

Trade and Forests: Why forest issues require attention in trade negotiations, 2003.
By Duncan Macqueen (IIED), Maryanne Grieg-Gran (IIED), and Heike Baumüller (ICTSD).

Trading Away The Last Ancient Forests: The Impacts On Forests Of Trade Liberalisation Measures By The WTO, November 2001.
By R.G. Tarasofsky and S. Pfahl, Ecologic - Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, on behalf of Greenpeace International.

The Effect of a Tariff Elimination Policy on the Forest Sector: A Global Perspective, 2001.
By J. Perez-Garzia, CINTRAFOR.

Economic and Environmental Effects of Accelerated Tariff Liberalization in the Forest Products Sector, August 2001.
By David J. Brooks, Joseph A. Ferrante, Jennifer Haverkamp and Ian Bowles for the US Trade Representative
(revised version of 1999 USTR study entitled "Accelerated Tariff Liberalization in the Forest Products Sector: A Study of the Economic and Environmental Effects)

Effects of Accelerated Tariff Liberalization on the Forest Products sector: A Global Modeling Approach, 2001.
By S. Zhu, J. Buongiorno and D. Brooks in Forest Policy and Economics 2(1).

Economic and Environmental Effects of Accelerated Tariff Liberalization in the Forest Products Sector, 2001.
By D.J. Brooks, J.A. Ferrante, J. Haverkamp, I. Bowles, W. Lange and D. Darr for USDA, PNW GTR-517.

Trade liberalisation and its impact on forests: An overview of the most relevant issues, July 2000.
By Tim Rice, Saskia Ozinga, Chantal Marijnissen and Mark Gregory, FERN.

Trade and Environment Issues in the Forest and Forest Products Sector, 2000.
By Franziska Hirsch, UNECE.

Tree Trade: Liberalization of International Commerce in Forest Products: Risks and Opportunities, 1999.
By N. Sizer, World Resources Institute.

Economic Development, Accelerated Tariff Liberalization & the Environment, 1999.
By Greg Mastel.

Timber trade and environment, 1999.
By E.B. Barbier in World Forest, Society and Environment, M. Palo and J. Uusivuori, eds.

Study of Non-Tariff Measures in the Forest Products Sector, 1999.
By the New Zealand Forest Research Institute for APEC.

Le role joué par l'economie dans la gestion forestiere: de Faustmann a la courbe environnementale de Kuznets, 1999.
By R. Raunikar and J. Buongiorno in Revue Forestiere Francaise.

Accelerated Tariff Liberalization in the Forest Products Sector: A Study of the Economic and Environmental Effects, 1999.
By the Office of the US Trade Representative.

Tariff Liberalization, Wood Trade Flows, and Global Forests, 1999.
By Roger A. Sedjo and R. David Simpson, Resources for the Future.

Tree Trade: Liberalization of International Commerce in Forest Products: Risks and Opportunities, 1999.
By Nigel Sizer, David Downes and David Kaimowitz, World Resources Institute.

Liberalisation and ethical trade in the forest sector, October 1999.
By the Natural Resources Institute.

Assessing the Effects on Forests of Proposed Trade Liberalization in the Forest Product Sector, 1999.
By CIEL.

Forest Resoruces, Trade and Sustainable Development, 1999.
By Christopher Mupimpila for ICTSD.

Trade Barriers in the Pacific Forest Sector: Who Wins and Who Loses, 1997.
By J. Perez-Garzia, B. Lippke and J. Baker in Contemporary Economic Policy Vol XV.

Impact of the Uruguay Round on International Trade in Forest Products, 1996.
By E.B. Barbier.

Bad Harvest? Timber Trade and the Degradation of Global Forests, 1995.
By Nigel Dudley, Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud and Francis Sullivan.

The Linkages between the Timber Trade and Tropical Deforestation - Indonesia, 1995.
By E.B. Barbier, N. Bockstael, J.C. Burgess and I. Strand in The World Economy, 18(3):411-442.

The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade, 1994
By E.B. Barbier, Joanne Burgess, Bruce Aylward, Joshua Bishop

The Tropical Timber Trade and Sustainable Development, 1991.
By J.R. Vincent in Science 256(5064).

International Trade in Forest Products. n.d.
By Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Joseph Buongiorno, David N. Wear and Jacek P. Siry in Forests in a Market Economy, Sills and Abt Eds.

Forestry Products Trade, n.d.
By C. Denise Ingram and Michael Hicks, USTR.

 

Subsidies

How Government funds are killing Oceans and Forests and why the CBD rather than the WTO should stop this peverse use of public money, March 2006.
By Juergen Knirsch, Daniel Mittler, Martin Kaiser, Karen Sack, Christoph Thies and Larry Edwards, Greenpeace.

Natural Resource Subsidies, Trade and Environment: The Cases of Forests and Fisheries, 1996.
By Gareth Porter, Presented at the Workshop: APEC and the Environment: Innovative Approaches to Trade and Environment in Asia-Pacific, 18 October 1996.

 

Certification and Eco-Labelling

Price Premiums for Verified Legal and Sustainable Timber, February 2006.
By Rupert Oliver (UK Timber Trade Federation).

PEFC Position Paper towards the Phased Approach to Forest Certification, 2006.
By the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification.

Chain-of-Custody Certification: What is it, Why do it, and How? May 2005.
By Jeff Howe, Jim L. Bowyer, Phil Guillery and Kathryn Fernholz (Dovetail Partners).

The Forestry Certification Handbook, 2nd. ed, January 2005.
By Ruth Nussbaum and Markku Simula.

Overlapping Public and Private Governance: Can Forest Certification Fill the Gaps in the Global Forest Regime? 2004
By Lars H. Gulbrandsen.

Behind the Logo: an environmental and social assessment of forest certification schemes, May 2001.
By FERN.

Forest Certification: Part I and II, 1999.
By Jean-Pierre Kiekens.

Timber certification: a critique.
By Jean-Pierre Kiekens, Environmental Strategies Europe.

 

Public Procurement, FLEGT and other governmental measures

Demand-Side Options: Policies and Measures for Reducing Imports of Ilelgal TImber and TImber Products to Consumer Countries, May 2006.
By Duncan Brack and Jade Saunders (Chatham House).

International Initiatives to Address Tropical Timber Logging and Trade, April 2006.
By Lars H. Gulbrandsen and David Humphreys at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute for the Norwegian Ministry of Environment.

EU FLEGT Initiative: Analysis of National Legislation of Relevance to Excluding Illegal Timber from EU Markets--UK Study, March 2006
By Duncan Brack, Chatham House.

UK Government's Timber Procurement Policy: What Have the Impacts Been?, September 2005.
By Emily Fripp.

Licensing of Legal Timber: Logic and Design of an EU Scheme, August 2004.
By FERN.

FLEGT Briefing Note 8: What are the WTO Implications, April 2004.
By the European Commission.

Forests Out of Bounds: Impacts and Effectiveness of Logging Bans in Natural Forests in Asia-Pacific, 2002.
By C. Brown, P. Durst and T. Enters, FAO.

 

Illegal Trade and Logging

Illegal Logging, July 2007.
By Duncan Brack, Chatham House.

Controlling Illegal Logging: Lessons from the US Lacey Act, July 2007.
By Duncan Brack, Chatham House.

Cambodia's Family Trees, June 2006.
By Global Witness.

Chinese Wood Products Supply Chain Analysis: Helping Chinese Wood Producers Achieve Market Demands for Legal and Sustainable Timber, March 2007.
By the Tropical Forest Trust.

China and the Global Market for the Forest Products: Transforming Trade to Benefit Forests and Livelihoods, March 2006
By the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy.

Failing the Forests: Europe's Illegal Timber Trade, December 2005
By WWF.

Partners in Crime: The UK Timber Trade, Chinese Sweatshops and Malaysian Robber Barons in Papua New Guinea's Rainforests, October 2005.
By Greenpeace.

A Choice for China: Ending the Destruction of Burma's Frontier Forests, October 2005.
By Global Witness.

Illegal Logging, June 2005.
By Duncan Brack, Chatham House.

NGO Report on Regulation of Illegal Logging by the EU. 2004.
By Van Den Biesen Advocaten for WWF, FERN and Greenpeace.

Controlling Imports Of Illegal Timber: Options for Europe, 2003.
By Duncan Brack, Chantal Marijnissen and Saskia Ozinga. The Forests and the European Union Resource Network and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Controlling The International Trade In Illegaly Logged Timber And Wood Products, 2002.
By Duncan Brack, Gavin Hayman and Kevin R. Gray, published by UK Department for International Development.

 

Statistics, Data and Sustainable Forest Management

Status of Tropical Forest Management 2005, 2006.
By the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO).

Forests And Floods: Drowning In Fiction Or Thriving On Facts? 2005.
By the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

In Search Of Excellence: Exemplary Forest Management In Asia And The Pacific, May 2005.
By FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific.

The State of the World's Forests, March 2005.
By the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

The Sustainable Forestry Handbook, 2nd. ed, February 2005.
By Sophie Higman, James Mayers, Stephen Bass, Neil Judd and Ruth Nussbaum .

The Global Forest Products Model, 2003.
By J. Buongiorno, S. Zhu, D. Zhang, J. Turner and D. Tomberlin.

 

ITTO, UNFF and Institutional Analysis

Reforming the International Tropical Timber Agreement, June 2005.
By Lauren Flejzor.

What future for forests? A discussion on options for the future International Arrangement on Forests (IAF), May 2005.
By IUCN.

 

Biotechnology

Briefing Paper on Transgenic Trees, March 2006.
By Global Justice Ecology Project, EcoNexus, Friends of the Earth International, Global Forest Coalition, and World Rainforest Movement

Preliminary Review of Biotechnology in Forestry, Including Genetic Modification, December 2004.
By Forest Resources Development Service, FAO.

Are Genetically Modified Trees A Threat To Forests? 2004
By M.H. El-Lakany, FAO.

Tree Biotechnology: Regulation and International Trade. July 2004.
By Roger A. Sedjo.

 

Climate Change

Risks and Chances of Combined Forestry and Biomass Projects under the Clean Development Mechanism, June 2006.
By Michael Dutschke, Gerald Kapp, Anna Lehmann, Volkmar Schafer, Hamburg Institute of International Economics.

Can Permanence Be Insured? Consideration Of Some Technical And Practical Issues Of Insuring Carbon Credits From Afforestation And Reforestation, 2003.
By Jenny Wong and Michael Dutschke (Hamburg Institute of International Economics).

Forestry Projects: Lesson Learned And Implications For CDM Modalities, May 2003.
By Jane Ellis (OECD).

 

Other

Bosque Del Pueblo, Puerto Rico: How A Fight To Stop A Mine Ended Up Changing Forest Policy From The Bottom Up, January 2006.
By Alexis Massol González, Edgardo González, Arturo Massol Deyá, Tinti Deyá Díaz, Tighe Geoghegan, (IIED).

Forest Vocation Lands and Forest Policy: When Simpler is Better, 2005.
By José Rente Nascimento (Inter-American Development Bank).

Tropical Wood - Guide for buyers, advertisers, salespersons and customers, 2004.
By WWF.

Farm-Level Timber Production: Orienting Farmers towards the Market, 2003.
By C. Holding Anyonge, and J.M. Roshetko produced by Unasylva, FAO.

Biopiracy In The Amazon, 2003.
By Amazon Link.

Changing Landscapes, May 2003.
By Duncan Poore (Earthscan).

Economics of the US-Canada Softwood Lumber Dispute: A Historical Perspective.
By SM Osman Rahman and S. Devadoss in The Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy.

Review of USAID's Natural Forest Management Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, March 2002.
By Pool, J. P.; Catterson, T. M.; Molinos, V. A.; Randall, A. C. / USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) / Development Experience System (DEXS).

Selling Forest Environmental Services: Market-Based Mechanisms For Conservation And Development, 2002.
By Stefano Pagjola, Joshua T. Bishop and Natasha Landell-Mills, IIED.

Company-Community Forestry Partnerships: From Raw Deals To Mutual Gains?, 2002.
By James Mayers and Sonja Vermeulen, IIED.

Status of implementation of forest-related clauses in the CBD, 2002.
By FERN.

The State Of The Nation's Ecosystems: Measuring The Lands, Waters, And Living Resources Of The United States, September 2002.
By the Heinz Center.

Elements of the economic contribution of forestry to sustainable development, 1997.
By Markku Simula.

Sustainability and the Trade in Tropical Rainforest Timber, 1997.
By Friends of the Earth UK.