An Open Access Special Issue from Society & Natural Resources
Governing Land and Natural Resources in a Global Economy
An Open Access Special Issue from Society & Natural Resources
Routledge Journals is pleased to announce a Special Issue from Society & Natural Resources entitled Formalization as Development in Land and Natural Resource Policy.
This special issue, edited by Dr. Louis Putzel, Senior Scientist,
Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia, spans the
globe, with innovative research on formalization cases from Ethiopia,
Cameroon, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Zimbabwe, and South Africa
and takes an in-depth look at the political, environmental, and economic
challenges surrounding “formalization”— efforts to regulate natural
resource access and trade. OPEN ACCESS is now available to Formalization as Development in Land and Natural Resource Policy.
Formalization measures
are implemented by governments to curb unsustainable exploitation of
lumber, fisheries, minerals, and other natural resources. The idea is
that social and environmental norms will develop through political and
legal regulatory systems that incentivize responsible harvesting and
trade. This in turn will reduce poverty, pollution, human rights abuses,
and conflict, while simultaneously bolstering economic development.
These noble intentions, however, are not always the end result—when
carried out negligently, formalization can lead to corruption, exclusion
of marginalized people, economic loss, and environmental damage.
The results of
formalization are determined by a wide assortment of influences, from
socio-political conditions of immediate concern to the larger historical
contexts of the areas in which it’s carried out. While often enforced
by powerful governing bodies, formalization can also come out of
grass-roots organizing, when individuals realize a need to regulate
available natural resources to better their communities on a smaller
scale.
For supplemental information, please visit: http://www1.cifor.org/pro-
View a video of the Guest Editor discussing the issue at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Read more about the issue on CIFOR’s Forests News Blog:
http://blog.cifor.org/28748/
http://blog.cifor.org/28748/
Volume 28, Issue 5, 2015
View online at: www.tandfonline.com/USNR
For supplemental information, see http://www1.cifor.org/pro-
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