Dossier 2013/10

Dwindling forests

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© Michel / Biosphoto / Lineair

Forest worker in the DRC.
Editorial
– by Hans Dembowski

Global public good

Law of the jungle – why forests are disapperaring fast from developing countries and why Germans don't understand the reasons
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Forestry
– by Ulrike Haupt, Birgit Joußen

Sustainable use

Governments and the private sector must make the timber trade more sustainable
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Ecological destruction
– by Julio César Bernio

Conquest by chainsaw

Logging in the subtropical dry forest deprives indigenous people in Argentina of their livelihood
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Central Africa
– by Ephrem Balole, Gesine Ames, et al.

Tropical forest in peril

Ephrem Balole et al: The government of the DRC is not doing nearly enough to protect the rainforest
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Deforestation
– by Monika Hellstern

Global trends

Every year more and more rainforest is being cleared – damaging humans and the climate
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Forests degradation
– by Korinna Horta

The end of over-optimism

Poor people's access to resources and governance are core issues of reducing carbon emissions from deforestation
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Climate protection
– by Lisa Ringhofer

Preparing for action

Involving indigenous peoples in REDD+ projects seems promising – in Bolivia even more so than in Ecuador
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Renewable energy
Prudent forestry offers new opportunities: Ghanaian worker
– by Lorenzo Cotula, Lynn Finnegan, et al.

Europe’s appetite for wood

The pros and cons of large-scale biomass production in tropical forests
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Forests
– by Sheila Mysorekar

Stopping the axe

Report on illegal deforestation by UNEP and Interpol
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Crisis areas
– by Aditi Roy Ghatak

State of conflict

Some regions in India face the same problems resource-rich fragile states have
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