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by Ruth Nogueron, Loretta Cheung, Jonathan Mason and Bo Li - August 2018This publication updates the 2014 version of Sourcing Legally Produced Wood, which provided information on illegal logging and associated trade, public and private procurement policies, export country logging and log export bans, and introductory guidance to the wood products legality legislation in the United States, the EU, and Australia.
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by Ruth Nogueron, Lars Laestadius and Joe Lawson, MWV, Chair of the Value Chain Action Team, WBCSD Forest Solutions Group - December 2014 project
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by Jake Brunner, Kirk Talbot and Chantal Elkin - August 1998Burma holds more than half of mainland Southeast Asia's closed forest, and is often called "the last frontier of biodiversity in Asia." Having lost virtually all of their original forest cover, Burma's neighbors -- China, India, and Thailand -- rely increasingly on Burma as a source of timber.
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by Nigel Sizer, Deanna M. Wolfire and Jake Brunner - June 1998Recommends policies to promote renewed forest stewardship and sound environmental management neglected during the Mobutu dictatorship and civil war. Argues that proper husbanding of the country's forest resources can act as a stimulant to economic growth.
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by Dirk Bryant and Daniel Nielsen and Laura Tangley - March 1997 publication
by Nigel Sizer - September 1996Guyana's abundant forest resources, encompassing 85 percent of its land area at the heart of the Guiana Shield, represent the largest remaining intact tropical forest frontier in the world.
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by Charles V. Barber, Nels C. Johnson and Emmy Hafild - March 1994Tropical forests are vanishing at alarming rates throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and their many contributions to huan welfare are being undermined. Despite increased efforts to stem deforestation, recent findings indicate that the problem is getting worse.
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by Robert Repetto, William Magrath, Michael Wells, Christine Beer and Fabrizio Rossini - June 1989Under current national income accounting practices, assets such as buildings and equipment are valued as productive assets and depreciated over time; natural resource assets are not. This asymmetry is the way national assets are treated sends misleading signals to policymakers.