-
Plentiful forests, happy people? The EU’s FLEGT approach and its impact on human rights and private forestry sustainability schemes
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Karin Buhmann, Iben Nathan
2013
Focusing on potential impact on social sustainability in timber exporting or processing states outside the EU, this article discusses the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance...
-
Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020: Guidelines and Specifications
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2018
FAO has been monitoring the world’s forests at 5 to 10-year intervals since 1946. The recent Global Forest Resources Assessments (FRA) have been produced every five years in an ...
-
ASEAN: Regional Trends in Economic Integration, Export, Competitiveness, and Inbound Investment for Selected Industries
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
US International Trade Commission
2010
This report describes trends in regional integration, export competitiveness, and inbound investment for six industries within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)...
-
From the Tiger to the Crocodile: Abuse of Migrant Workers in Thailand
Thailand
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch
2010
The thousands of migrant workers from Burma, Cambodia, and Laos who cross the border into Thailand each year trade near-certain poverty at home for the possibility of relative p...
-
Illegal Logging and Related Trade – Indicators of the Assessment Findings: Thailand
Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Chatham House
2013
This summarizes Thailand 2013 Assessment Findings. More than half of Thailand’s wood demand is met by imports, and of these 20% is estimated to have been illegally sourced. Howe...
-
Efficacy of Removing Natural Forests from Timber Production as a Strategy for Conserving Forests
Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
2000
Several countries of the Asia-Pacific region have imposed total or partial logging bans (or similar restrictions on timber harvesting) in response to the rapid decline of natura...
-
International Protection for Siam Rosewood Begins
Thailand
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Environmental Investigation Society
2013
As international UN trade restrictions on endangered Siam rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis) came into effect (June 12, 2013), the London-based Environmental Investigation Age...
-
Good Day for Rosewoods as Species Get More Protection
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Viet Nam
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Environmental Investigation Agency
2016
September 29 has proved to be a major day for forests as 183 countries at the CITES 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17) agreed to boost protection for dalbergia rosewoods. Th...
-
Red Alert: How Fraudulent Siamese Rosewood Exports from Laos and Cambodia are undermining CITES Protection
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Environmental Investigation Agency UK Ltd (EIA)
2016
The 2013 listing of Siamese rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis spp) on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has failed to protect ...
-
Consideration of Proposals for Amendment of Appendices I and II
Thailand
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild...
2016
Siamese rosewood had been listed as “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature since 1998. At its 16th meeting (CoP16, Bangkok 2013), the Conference of t...
-
Genealogies of the Political Forest and Customary Rights in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand
Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Nancy Lee Peluso and Peter Vandergeest
2001
How have national and state governments the world over come to “own” huge expanses of territory under the rubric of “national forest,” “national parks,” or “wastelands”? The two...
-
Impacts and Effectiveness of Logging Bans in Natural Forests: Thailand
Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Sureeratna Lakanavichian
2001
At the seventeenth session the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC), member countries requested FAO to implement a study of the efficacy of removing natural forests from timb...
-
Myanmar Forest Information and Data (2011 Update)
Myanmar
Profiles - Geographical areas and sites
www.mongabay.com
2011
According to the U.N. FAO, 48.3% or about 31,773,000 ha of Myanmar is forested, according to FAO. Of this 10.0% ( 3,192,000 ) is classified as primary forest, the most biodivers...
-
Navigating the Border: An Analysis of the China-Myanmar Timber Trade
China, Myanmar
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Fredrich Kahrl, Horst Weyerhaeuser, Su Yufang
2004
In addition to socio-economic pressures, the combination of insufficient regulation in China and political instability in northern Myanmar has exacted a high ecological price. T...
-
Forest Cover Change in Southeast Asia - The Regional Pattern
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
H-J. Stibig, F. Stolle, R. Dennis, C. Feldkötter
2007
This document provides an overview of the present pattern of forest change in Southeast Asia at a regional scale. Areas of forest change were identified and approximately deline...
-
Changes of Tax Laws to Reduce Tax Evasion and Illegal Trade in Myanmar
Myanmar
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Anthony Loh, Deloitte Thailand
2014
On 11 March 2014, the Myanmar Parliament approved the following changes of tax law in order to boost Myanmar economy and to encourage taxpayers to comply with the tax laws. The ...
-
Worldwide Governance Indicators - Myanmar 1996-2016
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
World Bank
2017
The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) are a research dataset summarizing the views on the quality of governance provided by a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert ...
-
Timber Trade and Wood Flow–Study – Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Mr. Tuukka Castrén (Indufor Oy), Mr. Myint Kyu Pe (Myanmar Timber...
1999
The current study on wood demand and supply, and forest industries in the Union of Myanmar is a part of the Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management in Remote Greater Meko...
-
Biodiversity and Protected Areas – Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
J E Clarke, PhD
2010
Myanmar lies on the western side of Indochina between latitudes 10000' and 28030' N, and longitudes 92010' and 101010' E, the northernmost areas lying outside the tropics. Its a...
-
Community Forestry in Myanmar: Some Field Realities
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Oliver Springate-Baginski, Maung Maung Than, School of...
2011
Myanmar’s Community Forestry programme began in with the Community Forestry Instruction of 1995. Since then over two hundred and fifty Forest User Groups have been formed across...