Balancing Politics, Economics and Conservation
The Case of the Cameroon Forestry Law Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3885372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francçois Ekoko (United Nations Development Programme, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 131-154 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-7660.00149 |
| OpenAlex | W2053326236 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
The formulation of Cameroon's 1994 Forestry Law was influenced by the World Bank, the Government of Cameroon and French politicians, as well as by logging companies and individual Cameroonian politicians. Their actions were motivated by development objectives, direct material interests and political concerns. However, as the result of a flawed formulation process, conflicting interests and weak government administrative capacity, the law has not been fully implemented and may not be. An analysis of the 1994 Forestry Law suggests that the success of future policies will depend on the willingness of actors to defend their interests, the balance of power at the time, and the ability of the Executive Branch to mediate among the different interests in each case
Balance (ability) · Business · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Illegal logging · Law and economics · Logging · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Process (computing) · Security interest · Cambodian History and Society · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Forestry · Law
Prioritizing enablers for effective community forestry in Cameroon
Addressing equity in community forestry
Evolution of community forestry in Cameroon
Are community forests a viable model for the Democratic Republic of Congo
Environmental Licensing and Land Aggregation
Forest policy analysis praxis
The politics of forest governance failure in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Linking the global to the national
Making the Law of the Jungle
National forest policy as a platform for biosphere carbon management
From global forest governance to domestic politics
Good governance of local forest is neither easy nor cheap
How countries link forest monitoring into policy-making
Deforestation in Northern Thailand
Community Forestry Governance
Beyond the Square Wheel
A Fair Trade approach to community forest certification? A framework for discussion
Politico-economic determinants of forestry policy in Cameroon
Would strictly enforced forestry regulations affect farmers’ stated intentions to plant indigenous fruits trees? Insights from Cameroon
External Influences on and Conditions for Community Logging Management in Cameroon
Collaborative Governance in Theory and Practice
The Political Economy of Forest Policy in Mexico and Chile
Producing hybrid forests in the Congo Basin
Community forestry in Cameroon
The clean development mechanism and community forests in Sub-Saharan Africa
New Perspectives on Forest Dynamics and the Myth of ‘Communities’
Production forests as a conservation tool
Forest land deals, resistance, and legitimisation – a comparative analysis of discourse coalitions and silent actors in Cameroon and Malaysia
Implementation strategies for systematic conservation planning
Decentralised forest management
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |