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Many Journal readers are involved professionally and perhaps personally in the great political contest summed up in Marion Clawson's (1975) two-part question: forests for whom and for what? Debate is particularly rancorous in the case of tropical forests, where development interests frequently clash with protection interests. Tropical forests are simultaneously claimed by environmentalists, indigenous peoples, peasant cultivators, loggers, miners, cattle ranchers, and other stakeholders. It is a contest between rich and poory developed and developing, global and local (Laarman and Sedjo 1992). In many ways the contest over NGO influence in tropical forest issues parallels the domestic battle over forests in the United States...
Fiscal Year: fy99 ·
Problem Area: pa98-5 ·
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bin Mohd, R. and J. Laarman. 1994. The struggle for influence us nongovernmental organizations and tropical forests. Journal of Forestry 92(6):32-36. Want more? Send an email to emercer@fs.fed.us
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Forest Economics and Policy |
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USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station |