of illegal logging in tropical forests
The impact of illegal logging on tropical ecosystems will be the focus of a conference being held on campus Friday-Saturday, March 29-30.
Titled "Illegal Logging in the Tropics: The Ecology, Economics and Politics of Resource Misuse," the event is sponsored by the Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
According to the organizers of the event, the threat that illegal logging poses to the integrity of tropical forest ecosystems and the ways it undermines processes of sustainable development have repercussions on both the local and global level.
The conference will include four panels featuring social and natural scientists, resource managers, policy-makers and community leaders from around the world. Antonio Azuela, former attorney general for the environment in Mexico 1994-2000, will deliver the keynote address on Friday afternoon. Wangari Maathai, founder of the Greenbelt Movement in Kenya and a visiting faculty member at F&ES, will make closing remarks on Saturday afternoon.
Topics of discussion will include the roles of transparency, governance and enforcement; shifting definitions of illegality in land tenure histories; the ecological implications of extraction logging vs. forest management; the technical and sociopolitical implications of monitoring; economic impacts on forest management; and the incentives, risks and political economics that lead to illegal logging.
The conference will be held in Bowers Auditorium at F&ES, 205 Prospect St. For further information about the conference or how to register, visit the website at www.yale.edu/istf or send e-mail to istf@yale.edu.
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