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Forestry Law and Policy
| Sustainable forestry requires changes in many laws and policies on local, national, and international levels. Locally, any government agency or business can require paper to be bought with specific post-consumer waste or recycled paper pulp content. Nations can prohibit timber from legacy or old-growth forests or specific species considered threatened. Nations can rationalize land tenure rights, access to public forests for harvesting, set incentives or disincentives to encourage better forest management practices, stop illegal harvesting, and require safe minimum standards for logging. International organizations monitor phyto-sanitary and trade rules that impact cutting rates and debt-for-nature swaps. In addition, citizens can influence the wood products markets by boycotts or buycotts, media campaigns, and nonviolent direct actions. |
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Keywords forest protection, forest management, logging, forest conservation, timber products, forest economics, forest industries, pulp and paper, forest reserves, forest biomes, afforestation, Forest Management Act, U.S. Forest Service, recycled paper content, post-consumer paper content, ITTO, land tenure, common property management, common property resources, illegal tree harvesting, phyto-sanitary rules, debt-for-nature swap, boycotts | |
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