Illegal Logging and Related Trade: Indicators of the Global Response

By Sam Lawson and Larry MacFaul. 2010

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Prospects for Sustainable Logging in Tropical Forests (2012, background): “Although illegal logging has declined from peak levels in some countries, it continues nonetheless to be common across the tropics, generating about 100 million cubic meters of timber per year and leading to the degradation or loss of about 5 million ha of forest annually (Lawson and MacFaul 2010).”
Assembling an experimentalist regime: Transnational governance interactions in the forest sector (2014, background): “…experiencing significant growth in certification of individual FMUs both through the FSC and through a PEFC-affiliated national scheme (Lawson & MacFaul 2010). viii Thus, for example, an authoritative study by Chatham House of twelve countries which together account for 50 percent of illegal…”
Cameroon's Hidden Harvest: Commercial Chainsaw Logging, Corruption, and Livelihoods (2013, background): “Furthermore, for many years the country has been at the center of global concern over IFAs and poor governance in the forestry sector (Brown et al. 2008; Lawson and MacFaul 2010).”