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June 2010
CONTENTS
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Commonwealth Forests 2010
FOREST SCENES
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Deeper Economic thoughts on
forest-based carbon trade –part two
• The Canadian
Boreal Forest Agreement
• The Marcus
Wallenberg Foundation announces the 2010 Prize winner
• TechTalk
PUBLICATIONS
• Forestry,
Biomass & Sustainability 2010
• UK Institute
of Chartered Foresters annual meeting proceedings
• Vietnam: Why
REDD + needs local people
AROUND THE WORLD
• Indonesia
agrees to curb commercial deforestation
• Balkans sound alarm over
disappearing forests
• Global: Part-protected
forests burn more
• Cameroon: Hope that
signed Cameroon-EU VPA will begin end to illegal logging
• USA: Obama administration
extends roadless moratorium
• Global: Agreement on
financing and quick-start measures to protect rainforest
• UK: University told to
hand over tree data
• Global: Urban trees help
‘migrating birds’
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U.S. climate bill backs forest offsets
• India: Green India
Mission to double afforestation efforts by 2020
• India: Afforestation
drive in UP
• Madagascar: Shaky rule
threatens trees
• UK: Conker canker
decoded
• USA tops deforestation
league
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International Forestry Review |
Issue 2 2010
Special Issue: Forest taxation and tropical forest management
PAPERS
Forest taxation regime
for tropical forests: lessons
from central Africa
A. KARSENTY
The challenges of
redistributing forest-related
monetary benefits to
local governments: a decade
of logging area fees
in Cameroon
P.O. CERUTTI, G.
LESCUYER, S. ASSEMBE-MVONDO and L. TACCONI
Forestry taxation in
Africa: the cases of Liberia
and Gabon
R. KRELOVE and O.
MELHADO
Legitimacy of public
domain forest taxation, and
combatting corruption
in forestry
J. PALMER and J. BULKAN
COMMENTS
A reform of fiscal
policies in forested African
countries
H. BOURGUIGNON
The 2008-2009 timber
sector crisis in Africa and
some lessons for the
forest taxation regime
A. KARSENTY, N. BAYOL,
P. CERUTTI, D. EZZINE DE BLAS and E. FORNI
Bidding system for
allocating forest concessions
M. GRUT
Taxation of tropical
forests: Search for
generalizations after
half a century of trying
I. RUZICKA |