Forest certification and legality initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon: Lessons for effective and equitable forest governance

Constance L. McDermott, Lloyd C. Irland and Pablo Pacheco

Forest Policy and Economics, 2015, vol. 50, issue C, 134-142

Abstract: This paper draws on a case study of the Brazilian Amazon to assess how two widely promoted strategies to govern tropical forests – non-state certification and state-based legality initiatives – interact with tropical wood production systems and the implications this holds for reducing deforestation and degradation and for local benefit-sharing. The assessment is guided by an analytical framework that predicts the relevance and receptiveness of different timber supply chains to current systems of trade-based governance.

Keywords: Supply chain; Forest; Certification; Illegal logging; Legality; Governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2014.05.011

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