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The Tropical Timber Trade Regime

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Fred P. Gale

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Gale explains why international negotiations have not produced a sustainable solution to tropical rainforest degradation. Using an innovative, critical approach to international regimes, the author analyzes the structure and operation of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). He shows how the timber industry and producing- and consuming-country governments created a blocking alliance that favoured developmentalist interests and ideas. The ITTO bolstered this alliance by permitting environmentalists merely to voice, but not to negotiate, their concerns.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Tropical Rainforest Crisis

    • Fred P. Gale
    Pages 1-11

  3. International Regimes: A Conceptual History

    • Fred P. Gale
    Pages 12-29

  4. A Neo-Gramscian Approach to International Regimes

    • Fred P. Gale
    Pages 30-41

  5. Tropical Deforestation and Rainforest Degradation

    • Fred P. Gale
    Pages 42-60

  6. The Tropical Timber Trade

    • Fred P. Gale
    Pages 61-78

  7. The International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983

    • Fred P. Gale
    Pages 79-96

  8. State Coalitions Contesting the Tropical Timber Trade Regime

    • Fred P. Gale
    Pages 97-116

  9. Industry and Civil Society Organizations Contesting the TTTR

    • Fred P. Gale
    Pages 117-143

  10. The Politics of Regime Creation: Normative Content

    • Fred P. Gale
    Pages 144-157

  11. Eco-certification and Labelling as Compliance Mechanisms

    • Fred P. Gale
    Pages 158-177

  12. The ITTO Mission to Sarawak

    • Fred P. Gale
    Pages 178-203

  13. Explaining Tropical Deforestation and Rainforest Degradation

    • Fred P. Gale
    Pages 204-226

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 227-287
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada

    Fred P. Gale

About the author

FRED P. GALE is an Associate Lecturer, School of Government, University of Tasmania. He was previously Research Associate with the Eco-Research Chair of Environmental Law and Policy at the University of Victoria. Prior to his doctoral studies, Dr Gale worked for over ten years in the field of international development, as a volunteer English teacher in Sabah College, Sabah, Malaysia, as a program officer with the Irish Agency for Personal Service Overseas, and as a desk officer with the United Nations World Food Program in Rome, Italy. He has written several monographs on the BC forest products industry, eco-certification and labelling, and international trade policy.

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