FLEGT VPAs: Laying a pathway to sustainability via legality lessons from Ghana and Indonesia

Feja Lesniewska and Constance L. McDermott

Forest Policy and Economics, 2014, vol. 48, issue C, 16-23

Abstract: The long-term objective of the 2003 EU FLEGT Action Plan was to ensure a legal trade of timber products within and between countries and, by doing so, clear a pathway towards global sustainability and good governance. Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) between the EU and producing countries have emerged as a primary tool for achieving these goals. VPAs combine legality licensing as a market-based approach to stem illegal harvesting and trade with multi-stakeholder processes that seek to address underlying problems of forest governance, including unclear or contradictory forest related laws and weak community rights.

Keywords: Legality; Sustainability; Legal pluralism; FLEGT VPA; Ghana; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2014.01.005

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