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Changing Landscapes : The Development of the International Tropical Timber Organization and Its Influence on Tropical Forest Management.
Title:
Changing Landscapes : The Development of the International Tropical Timber Organization and Its Influence on Tropical Forest Management.
Author:
Poore, Duncan.
ISBN:
9781849770712
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (312 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Changing Landscapes -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Chapter 1: The rise and fall of forests -- Chapter 2: Sustainable forest management: a response to destruction -- Introduction -- The Tropical Forest Problem -- Land Use and Management - the Two Elements of Sustainability -- Wider Considerations -- Chapter 3: Genesis of a treaty: the ITTA takes shape -- Phase 1 -- Phase 2 -- Phase 3 -- Chapter 4: ITTO's early days: optimism and experiment -- The International Tropical Timber Agreement -- Other International Initiatives -- The 2nd Session of Council - Yokohama, March 1987 -- The 3rd Session of Council - Yokohama, November 1987 -- The 4th Session of Council - Rio de Janeiro, June-July 1988 -- Chapter 5: First assessment: living in a fool's paradise -- Introduction -- The Definition of Issues -- The Findings of the Study -- The Conditions for Sustainable Production -- Conditions of Success -- Recommendations to the International Tropical Timber Council - November 1988 -- Consideration by the International Tropical Timber Council at its 5th Session -- Chapter 6: From Abidjan to Bali: a radical new agenda -- The Context -- The 6th Session of Council - Abidjan, May 1989 -- The 7th Session of Council - Yokohama, November 1989 -- The 8th Session of Council - Bali, May 1990 -- Guidelines -- The Year 2000 Objective -- Chapter 7: The case of Sarawak -- The Mission -- The Task of the Mission -- The 'Native Peoples' Question -- Forestry in Sarawak -- Findings of the Mission -- The Assessment -- Recommendations -- Reception at the International Tropical Timber Council -- Chapter 8: Ferment 1990-1992 -- International Tropical Timber Organization Action Plan 1990 -- The Quito Round Table and the Year 2000 Target -- Other Issues at Quito.

The 11th Session of Council - Yokohama, November 1991 -- The 12th and 13th Sessions of Council - Yaounde and Yokohama, May and November 1992 -- Chapter 9: Tropical forests, or all forests? Renegotiating the ITTA -- International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994 -- Chapter 10: Has the tropical timber trade any leverage? Policies 1991-1995 -- Criteria and Indicators -- The Development of Forest Resource Accounting -- Economic Linkages -- Chapter 11: The many roads from UNCED -- International Developments: 1992-1995 -- International Developments: after 1995 -- Chapter 12: ITTO's road to 1995: ENGOs diverge -- The 15th Session of Council - Yokohama, November 1993 -- The 16th Session of Council - Cartagena, May 1994 -- The 19th Session of Council - Yokohama, November 1995 -- Chapter 13: 1995-2000: getting on with the job -- Council Matters under the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994 -- Missions -- Criteria and Indicators -- The Libreville Action Plan -- The Year 2000 Report -- Chapter 14: Year 2000 Report: the curate's egg -- Introduction -- Interpretation of the Year 2000 Objective -- Analysis of Progress in Producer Countries -- The Position in Consumer Countries -- Interactions -- Conclusions -- Chapter 15: Reaction: false start, new energy -- The 28th Session of Council - Lima, May 2000 -- The 29th Session of Council - Yokohama, October-November 2000 -- The Yokohama Action Plan 2002-2006 -- The Mission to Indonesia and Illegal Logging -- Forest Law Enforcement -- The International Tropical Timber Organization in 2001 -- Chapter 16: Policies in action: some case studies -- Policies and Projects -- Case Studies -- Chapter 17: ITTO: agent of change -- Chapter 18: Changing landscapes, future prospects -- How Much Forest? -- Trends in Forest Use -- The Way Forward: from Words to Action -- Appendix 1 -- Definitions -- Appendix 2.

The London Environmental Economics Centre Report and Certification -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Other related titles from Earthscan.
Abstract:
This is the history of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO); its aims, policies and achievements, through drawing on contemporary records and the author's own wide experience. The book uses examination of past successes and failures to formulate a 21st-century agenda for the most practical ways of improving the management of forests and deciding forest policies.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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