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Tropical Moist Forest Management: The Urgency of Transition to Sustainability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Robert J.A. Goodland ,
Emmanuel O.A. Asibey ,
Jan C. Post  and
Mary B. Dyson
Robert J.A. Goodland
Affiliation:
The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA.
Emmanuel O.A. Asibey
Affiliation:
The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA.
Jan C. Post
Affiliation:
The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA.
Mary B. Dyson
Affiliation:
The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA.
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The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), an increasing number of citizens and foresters, and the vast majority of environmentalists, must surely realize that most current use of tropical moist forest is unsustainable. The environmental services of tropical forest, and the biodiversity which it harbours — the world's richest source — is being lost so rapidly that consumer boycotts and other trade constraints aim to reduce the rate of irreversible damage but have so far proved little-effective. On one hand, tropical moist deforestation benefits exceedingly few people, and then only ephemerally. On the other hand, such deforestation permanently impoverishes, deracinates, or sickens, millions of people, impairs local or global environmental services, and exacerbates global environmental risks. The World Resources Institute ranks logging as one of the top causes leading to deforestation.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , Winter 1990 , pp. 303 - 318
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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