Forest Governance and Illegal Logging: Improving Legislation, and Interagency and Inter-Stakeholder Relations in Russia: A Summary Project Report (2006)

Teplyakov, V. and Grigoriev, A.

This summary project report provides a description of the main activities and results of a project aimed at identifying and responding to challenges related to the Russian legal framework and patchwork of agencies and actors having a role to play on illegal logging, forest law enforcement and broader forest governance (FLEG).

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The Beginning of the ENA-FLEG Process in Russia: Civil Society Insights (2005)

This publication is a collection of documents and reports relating to the first stages of the Europe and Northern Asia Forest Law and Enforcement and Governance process (ENA-FLEG).

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Communities and Forest Management in Canada and the United States

Comunidades y Gestión de Bosques en Mesoamérica
Communities and Forest Management in Mesoamerica

Edición: Gabriela Hernández

Esta publicación nos introduce en la relación ancestral entre comunidades y bosques en Mesoamérica. Nos explica cómo esa relación se ha visto afectada por procesos de desarrollo incongruentes con la gestión ambiental y la equidad social. Nos informa también sobre la capacidad organizativa que, a pesar de ello, están logrando consolidar muchas comunidades y grupos indígenas y campesinos. Nos ilustra acerca de las posibilidades y las políticas que son necesarias para fortalecer la participación comunitaria en la gestión ambiental. Also contains an Executive Summary in English.

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Series editor: Mark Poffenberger

The goal of this series is to communicate CIFM experiences between regions, targeting international policy-makers and national planners who are responsible for shaping forest management policies and strategies, as well as the forestry practitioners and development specialists who implement them. This profile provides a brief summary of South-east Asia's forest management history, human ecology, and administrative organisations, followed by a series of case studies.

Communities and Forest Management in South Asia

Edited by Mark Poffenberger

This regional profile focuses on five South Asian countries including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It attempts to highlight some important trends occurring in the forestry sector in this region, both at the national policy level as well as on the ground. Some of the world's most vital and innovative community-based forestry initiatives are located in South Asia, and this publication seeks to explain why and how some of the earth's poorest people have been able to establish effective management systems over millions of hectars of nationalized forestlands, facilitating their rapid regeneration.

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Communities and Forest Management in Western Europe

Sally Jeanrenaud

Fourth in the series, this profile explores the diverse and changing nature of Community Involvement in Forest Management (CIFM) in Western Europe. It provides some comparative European-level data on important social institutions which shape patterns of community involvement in forestry, and it briefly examines different national contexts. Through 12 case studies, this publication discusses some of the main economic, social, ecological and policy opportunities and challenges of CIFM in Europe, and outlines the principal lessons learned according to three key groups of actors: governments, NGOs and local communities. The profile also proposes some recommendations for policy and action in Europe.

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