This book 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 favored developmentalist interests and ideas. The ITTO bolstered this alliance by permitting environmentalists merely to voice, but not negotiate, their concerns.
List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• List of Acronyms
• The Tropical Rainforest Crisis
• International Regimes: A Conceptual History
• A Neo-Gramscian Approach to International Regimes
• Tropical Deforestation and Rainforest Degradation
• The Tropical Timber Trade
• The International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983
• State Coalitions Contesting the Tropical Timber Trade Regime
• Industry and Civil Society Organizations Contesting the TTTR
• The Politics of Regime Creation: Normative Consent
• Eco-Certification and Labeling as Compliance Mechanisms
• The ITTO Mission to Sarawak
• Explaining Tropical Deforestation and Rainforest Degradation
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index
Overview
This book 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 favored developmentalist interests and ideas. The ITTO bolstered this alliance by permitting ...