Rainforest of Cameroon : Experience and Evidence from a Decade of Reform.
Başlık:
Rainforest of Cameroon : Experience and Evidence from a Decade of Reform.
Yazar:
Topa, Giuseppe.
ISBN:
9780821379370
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1 online resource (184 pages)
Seri:
Directions in Development
İçerik:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Note -- Chapter 1: The Historic and Environmental Context -- The Natural and Cultural Setting -- Economic Depression and Recovery -- Environmental Stewardship and Protected Areas -- Forests and Cameroon's Political Economy -- Institutions Involved in Forest Management -- Note -- Chapter 2: The Advent of Forest Reform -- The 1994 Forest Law -- Economic Leverage -- Synergies and Partnerships -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Objectives and Content of the Reforms -- Organizing the Forest Landscape -- Efforts to Foster Community-based Forest Management -- A New Strategy and System to Allocate Forest Harvesting Rights -- Reforms to Support Sustainable Forest Management -- Reforms in Forest Taxation -- Institutional Reforms -- Notes -- Chapter 4: A Summary of Impacts -- General Trends -- Specific Observations -- Notes -- Chapter 5: In-Depth Analysis of Impacts -- Impacts on Sector Transparency and Public Participation -- Impacts on Illegal Logging -- Impacts on Deforestation and Forest Conservation -- Impacts on Integration of Global Environmental Services -- Impacts on Forest Management, Industry Structure, and Revenue -- Impacts on Poverty and Livelihoods -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Ten Years of Forest Sector Reform -- Lessons for Developing and Implementing Reforms -- The Unfinished Agenda -- Final Thoughts: Can the Reforms Achieve Lasting Results? -- Note -- Appendix 1: Structural Adjustment Credits, 1994-98 -- Appendix 2: Production Forests Gazetted as of February 2006 -- Appendix 3: Conservation Estate in Cameroon -- Appendix 4: Bidding System for Harvesting Rights -- Appendix 5: Chronology of Changes in the Legislative Framework for Forest Taxation -- Appendix 6: 2005 Forest and Environment Sector Policy Letter.
Appendix 7: Impacts on Harvest Selectivity -- Appendix 8: Evolution of Processing Capacity, 1998-2004 -- Appendix 9: Modeling the Impact of Changing Fiscal Pressure -- Appendix 10: Technical Adaptations to Better Integrate the Tax Regime and Auction System -- References -- Index -- Maps -- Back cover.
Özet:
Starting in 1994, Cameroon introduced regulatory and market-based reforms to regulate access to its rainforests, balance public and private interests in those forests, and integrate wider economic, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the value of forests. Based on historical data and extensive interviews, this report concludes that the reforms brought order over the most aggressively competing interests and started to address deeper social and environmental issues, but a significant unfinished agenda remains. On the positive side, information on the boundaries, ownership, use rights, and management of Cameroon's rainforests has become available for public scrutiny, along with information on detection and prosecution of illegal activities. Better and better known rules of the game have improved forest governance and collaboration between forest institutions and civil society. More than 60 percent of Cameroon's rainforests are under management systems that emphasize sustainability. Illegal logging has declined sharply managed parks and production forests, although it persists in rural areas. The restructured forest industry has adopted internationally recognized management practices that have started to align logging with the forest's capacity to regenerate. Cameroon has established rules to preserve customary rights to forests, and community forests have progressed despite unanticipated challenges. Yet further reform is needed. Deeper recognition of the customary rights of all people who depend on Cameroon's forests, regardless of ethnicity, is vital. Timber and nontimber forest products like medicinal plants and bush meat remain subject to illegal exploitation outside state forests. Cameroon needs qualified eco-investors to sustain conservation and diminish reliance on timber production. Community involvement in the management of all
types of forests should expand further. Great attention to local markets and small firms will strengthen forest governance and the forest industry in important ways. Rewarding responsible corporate behavior with more lenient bank guarantees and tax incentives may prove as important for conserving forests as punishing corporate misbehavior.
Notlar:
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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