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Global forests and international environmental law

Corporate author
Canadian Council of International Law
Date
1996
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-058744)
Publisher | Place of publication
Kluwer Law International | London, UK
ISBN
90-411-0879-1
Pages
422 p.
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Forestry
Keyword
Forest management/forest conservation Policy/planning
Abstract

Contents: 1. Towards a global Forests Convention: Getting out of the woods and barking up the right tree 2. A conceptual framework for an international Forests Convention: Customary law and emerging principles 3. Forests, forestry practices and the living environment 4. International watercourse law and forests 5. 'Sustainably priced' trade in forest products and ecological services: some legal standards and economic instruments 6. Seeing the forest, the trees and the people: Coming to terms with developing country perspectives on the proposed Global Forests Convention 7. Development assistance issues related to a Convention on Forests 8. International legal instruments and institutional arrangements: A discussion paper