The Institutional Origins of Deforestation in Latin America
Author : Douglas DeWitt Southgate
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Clearing of land
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Author : Douglas DeWitt Southgate
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Clearing of land
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Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
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Author : Ellen Kay Miller
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Deforestation
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Author : Katrina Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000924688
The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique – a form of ‘environ-metrics’ – to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated, and attributed to causes as varied as poverty, external debt, multinational logging companies, government corruption, the IMF, population growth, and non-sustainable agriculture.
Author : Francis E. Putz
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Forest management
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Author : Daniel M. Brinks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108738880
This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, arguing that weakness or strength is a function of the extent to which an institution actually matters to social, economic or political outcomes. It then presents a typology of three forms of institutional weakness: insignificance, in which rules are complied with but do not affect the way actors behave; non-compliance, in which state elites either choose not to enforce the rules or fail to gain societal cooperation with them; and instability, in which the rules are changed at an unusually high rate. The Element then examines the sources of institutional weakness.
Author : Diana Carney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134664907
This book examines the effects of recent changes in the way natural resources and supporting services are managed and in the rights and responsibilities of resource users in developing countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
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Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
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Author : Daniel J Vogt
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 1999-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780849315855
Forest certification has been widely accepted as a tool that would encourage industrial and non-industrial management of resources in an environmentally acceptable, socially beneficial and economically viable manner. Much has been written on certification yet five issues have been missing, which this book addresses: an analysis of the scientific basis for the certification standards; a formal and mechanistic incorporation of social and natural system sustainability as part of the standards; the rationale for the different sets of standards that are currently being used to certify governmental, industrial and non-industrial organizations; the success of the different sets of standards in assessing the environmental acceptability, social benefits and economic viability of the managed system; and, the difficulty of certifying small landowners with current protocols. Forest Certification examines the historical roots of forest certification, the factors that guide the development of certification protocols, the players involved in certification, the factors determining the customers to be certified, and the benefits of certification. The book also covers the terminology and other issues intrinsic to certification that direct the structure of standards, the similarities between indicators of different human disturbances within the ecosystem/landscape and certification standards, and, finally, a case study evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of existing certification protocols. Forest Certification is unique in its analysis of the scientific basis for the structure of the forest certification protocols. It documents the roles of human values in the development of assessment protocols but demonstrates how elements of existing protocols should be used to produce non-value based standards.
Author : Daniel M. Brinks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108803172
Analysts and policymakers often decry the failure of institutions to accomplish their stated purpose. Bringing together leading scholars of Latin American politics, this volume helps us understand why. The volume offers a conceptual and theoretical framework for studying weak institutions. It introduces different dimensions of institutional weakness and explores the origins and consequences of that weakness. Drawing on recent research on constitutional and electoral reform, executive-legislative relations, property rights, environmental and labor regulation, indigenous rights, squatters and street vendors, and anti-domestic violence laws in Latin America, the volume's chapters show us that politicians often design institutions that they cannot or do not want to enforce or comply with. Challenging existing theories of institutional design, the volume helps us understand the logic that drives the creation of weak institutions, as well as the conditions under which they may be transformed into institutions that matter.