Logging and legality: environmental crime, civil society, and the state.
THIS ARTICLE CONSIDERS HOW CRIMINOLOGISTS CAN BEST ANALYZE THE CRIME AND harm involved in the destruction of forests around the world. Although "illegal logging" as conventionally defined is undoubtedly a major form of transnational organized crime, the boundary between "legal" and "illegal" logging is ambiguous and conceptually unsatisfactory. We...

Lawyers, trees and money: British Columbia forest policy and the convergence of international and domestic trade considerations.
Softwood lumber in Canada is a sectoral issue driven by both international and domestic dynamics. Domestically, the government of British Columbia maintains significant control of timber policy as a result of provincial land ownership, executive dominance, and the historic role of the Ministry of Forests. In addition, there is...

Levelling the playing field not our native forests: with National Competition Policy, state forestry operators need to reassess the way they do business to help foster the plantation industry.
OPPOSITION TO LOGGING in Australia's native forests has largely been based upon ecological concerns and the foregoing of potential products and services, such as tourism. But since the introduction of National Competition Policy, the financial viability of the sector is now under scrutiny. The National Competition Policy...

Why is there no international forestry law?: An examination of international forestry regulation, both public and private.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the question posed in its title. The absence of a "third generation international environmental law" in the form of an interstate convention dealing with tropical and temperate deforestation, and mandating sustainable forestry practices, is not the result of a lack of effort. Rather,...

War of the wood: the battle to save Asia Pacific's largest stand of untouched rainforest is a risky business, according to ACF Asia Pacific coordinator Lee Tan.
IN OCTOBER A PROMINENT Papua New Guinean NGO leader was shot and is still recovering from the bullet wound. Several months earlier a senior environmental lawyer was abducted and managed to escape. In the last two years lawyers and community workers assisting landowners have been illegally detained, threatened and...

Political economy of the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber dispute.
The United States and Canada enjoy the benefits of the world's largest bilateral trading relationship. The United States accounts for about eighty percent of Canada's total foreign trade, and Canada accounts for more than twenty percent of the goods and services trade of the United States. The two-way trade...

A timber baron exposed.
Indonesia -- Timber baron Mohammad "Bob" Hasan is a rising environmental star. In Indonesia, one of his companies recently won a clean-operations award from the government, and abroad, he's been getting plenty of good press. But Hasan is anything but deserving of environmental praise. Best known as Indonesia's...

U.N. cracks down on "conflict diamonds".
In an attempt to stem international trade in "conflict diamonds" from West Africa, on May 7, 2001 the United Nations imposed economic sanctions on Liberia, which has smuggled a steady flow of ill-gotten diamonds from rebel forces in neighboring Sierra Leone. Liberia's diamond purchases have helped fund...

Western Forest Products Announces Q3 2006 Results.
Increase in EBITDA Reported TSX: WEF DUNCAN, BC, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Western Forest Products Inc. (TSX: WEF) today announced its results for the third quarter of 2006. The Company achieved EBITDA of $10.2 million in the quarter compared to $7.7 million in the second...

Flights of the phoenix: explaining the durability of the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute.
Benjamin Cashore, an expert on forest resource policy in Canada and the United States, is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the forest economics and policy analysis research unit at the University of British Columbia. He holds advanced degrees in political science from Carleton University (1986, 1988) and the University...