International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO).


Book Description

Presents the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), based in Yokohama, Japan. Notes that one major ITTO objective is that by the year 2000, all tropical timber products traded internationally by member states shall originate from sustainably managed forests. Offers information about the timber market, policy development, the tropical forest, and annual reports.




Changing Landscapes


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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.
















Tropical timber atlas


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This atlas presents technical information for professionals who process and use temperate or tropical timber. It combines the main technical characteristics of 283 tropical species and 17 species from temperate regions most commonly used in Europe with their primary uses.







The Tropical Timber Trade Regime


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Gale explains why international negotiations have not produced a sustainable solution to tropical rainforest degradation. Using an innovative, critical approach to international regimes, the author analyzes the structure and operation of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). He shows how the timber industry and producing- and consuming-country governments created a blocking alliance that favoured developmentalist interests and ideas. The ITTO bolstered this alliance by permitting environmentalists merely to voice, but not to negotiate, their concerns.