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Managing a Global Resource: Challenges of Forest Conservation and Development (World Bank Series on Evaluation and Development, 5) by Uma J Lele; EBSCO Publishing (Firm) is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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The rapid loss of tropical forests, particularly in the developing world, has been a global concern since the late 1980s and has prompted a variety of international initiatives to save the forests. In 1991, the World Bank responded to global concerns and to criticism by nongovernmental organizations by forming a conservation-oriented forest strategy. Managing a Global Resource is an outgrowth of the independent evaluation conducted by the World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department and discusses how effectively that strategy was implemented. In this detailed investigation, Uma J. Lele explores why the loss of forests and biodiversity has been so rapid in some developing countries (Brazil, Indonesia, and Cameroon) and not in others (China, India, and Costa Rica). She assesses future prospects for conservation in these six countries by critically examining their policies, institutional arrangements, and emerging national and international instruments to conserve forests and biodiversity. Together these six countries account for 25 percent of the world's forest cover and 44 percent of the world's population. Managing a Global Resource presents case studies of the forest sectors of e

Author

Uma J Lele; EBSCO Publishing (Firm)

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351507318

Subjects

Economics, Nature, Management