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Combating Forest Corruption: the Forest Integrity Network

  • A. Gupta
  • , U. Siebert

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    Abstract

    This article describes the strategies and activities of the Forest Integrity Network. One of the most important underlying causes of forest degradation is corruption and related illegal logging. The Forest Integrity Network is a timely new initiative to combat forest corruption. Its approach is to form global multi-stakeholder coalitions between the civil, private and public sectors and to create synergies between organizations fighting corruption, like Transparency International, and actors concerned with forest conservation and sustainable use. The article describes FIN's current activity in analyzing the relevance of Transparency International's corruption fighting strategies for the forest sector and its future plans to produce an operational Forest Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit. FIN also aims to develop conceptual frameworks for cross-country comparisons and compile replicable best practices in tackling forest corruption.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)337-349
    Number of pages13
    JournalJournal of Sustainable Forestry
    Volume19
    Issue number1/2/3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2004

    UN SDGs

    This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
      SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

    Keywords

    • Best practices
    • Forest corruption
    • Forest Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit
    • Forest degradation
    • Forest Integrity Network
    • Illegal logging
    • Multi-stakeholder coalitions
    • Transparency International

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