Financing sustainable forest management in developing countries: the case for a holistic approach

Singer, Benjamin D.

doi:10.1505/146554816818206159

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“…The most reliable data focus on international public financing ( Figure 17.3). While the overall trend in recent years is upward, closer scrutiny of national figures reveals volatility over space and time (Singer 2016). While only a handful of countries receives most forestry ODA each year, which countries these are changes over time and thus forestry ODA per country may increase or decrease several-fold from one year to the next.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While only a handful of countries receives most forestry ODA each year, which countries these are changes over time and thus forestry ODA per country may increase or decrease several-fold from one year to the next. However, 27 developing countries received no forestry ODA for the period -2010(AGF 2012, Singer 2016. OECD figures depend on donor self-reporting, so ODA that affects forests but is not explicitly labelled forestry by donors does not appear.…”

Section: International Public Financingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals – Focus on Forest Finance and Partnerships

Humphreys¹,

Singer²,

McGinley³

et al. 2019

Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People

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Section: International Public Financingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: International Public Financingmentioning

confidence: 99%

SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals – Focus on Forest Finance and Partnerships

Humphreys¹,

Singer²,

McGinley³

et al. 2019

Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People

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“…however, there is a gap in scholarship for deep contextual analysis of financial firms' positionality communities and businesses that are co-navigating sustainability transitions, in both operationally routine and distressed situations (Singer, 2009;Archer, 2012;Humphreys et al, 2019;Salzmann, 2013;Singer, 2016;Urban & Wójcik, 2019). Notably, there are selective uses of the terms "community" and "values" within the relationship banking, sustainable finance, corporate social responsibility, and sustainable development literatures; however, this conceptual pathway requires more of an investigative response to address how community, particularly when framed as participatory action such as community level finance, is present (Humphreys et al, 2019;Nájera-Sánchez, 2020;Smulowitz et al, 2020).…”

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Small-medium enterprise experiences of financial service in urban and rural settings : a phenomenological study of a changing community finance landscape and the sustainable finance narrative

Sanders¹

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Relationships between small-medium size businesses ('SME') and community banks are complex, meaningful, and often described as characteristically "opaque". This study offers a conceptual framework for exploring this "opaqueness" from the perspective of SMEs and community financiers engaged in the process of community finance. Insights into the experiential dynamics of SMEs and community financiers co-navigating the financial service landscape offers an exploratory frame for investigations of interactive capacity, knowledge formation, and reflexive orientations. The implications of what transpires between SMEs and their community financiers can be far-reaching and of particular importance as the financial service landscape evolves to respond to calls for more 'sustainable finance' to support the goals of Agenda 2030, conveyed as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study findings suggest that multi-dimensional aspects of community financee not well understood. Future research and practitioner ideation is suggested around the importance of placing community finance, as a facilitative process, within emerging 'sustainable finance' frameworks. Doing so offers an enhanced social-ecological lens for exploring the role, effects, and effectiveness of community finance in the 21st century.

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“…McDermott et al [28] examined how various forest-relevant instruments and processes have shaped international forest policy and the holistic concept of SFM, although this analysis did not include FLEGT or REDD+. Furthermore, Cosslett [29] and Singer [30] studied the financing landscape relevant to SFM. However, no previous study has explicitly examined how SFM affects or is affected by such interlinkages [19] or identified strategies to manage the interlinkages among SFM, FLEGT, and REDD+ to strengthen forest policy coherence.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sustainable Forest Management, FLEGT, and REDD+: Exploring Interlinkages to Strengthen Forest Policy Coherence

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Sustainable forest management (SFM) is a concept that guides forest management and policy globally. Over the past decades, two prominent regimes have emerged at the global level that can strengthen SFM: The European Union's Action Plan on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade (FLEGT) and the United Nations' mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+). However, the understanding of how FLEGT and REDD+ can interlink with SFM to strengthen forest policy coherence is limited. Enhancing knowledge about interlinkages and synergies is important in view of recent global commitments to strengthen policy coherence. This study employed content analysis of the main global policy documents related to FLEGT and REDD+ to identify (i) the potential contributions of the two regimes to SFM, and (ii) strategies to manage the interlinkages among SFM, FLEGT, and REDD+. The results revealed several potential interlinkages, such as monitoring, reporting, and verification systems, establishing the enabling conditions of SFM, and addressing drivers of forest degradation. However, the interlinkages must be managed if their potential is to be realized. For this, the study proposes three approaches to managing the interlinkages and catalyzing progress toward SFM.

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Financing sustainable forest management in developing countries: the case for a holistic approach

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals – Focus on Forest Finance and Partnerships

SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals – Focus on Forest Finance and Partnerships

Small-medium enterprise experiences of financial service in urban and rural settings : a phenomenological study of a changing community finance landscape and the sustainable finance narrative

Sustainable Forest Management, FLEGT, and REDD+: Exploring Interlinkages to Strengthen Forest Policy Coherence

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