Forests of Fear: Illegal Logging, Criminalization, and Violence in the Carpathian Mountains

Iordăchescu, George; Vasile, Monica

doi:10.1080/24694452.2023.2209631

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“…While no specific keywords related to "Illegal Logging" were mentioned in the summaries or key findings, the issue was addressed in the main text of several forest reports, which may indicate a need for more available information on the topic. Nevertheless, illegal logging remains a significant concern (UNEP/UNICRI 2018, World Bank 2019, Iordachescu & Vasile 2023. The recently adopted European Union deforestation and degradation regulation (EC 2023a) may positively impact reducing the incentives for illegal logging in Europe and globally.…”

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Key information for forest policy decision-making - Does current reporting on forests and forestry reflect forest discourses?

Linser,

Lier,

Bastrup-Birk

2023

iForest

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Forest discourses help identify forest-related issues. They aim to aid policy and decision-makers in understanding forest-related challenges and opportunities better so that they may initiate possible strategies and tactics to tackle them. Ideally, information requirements for the forest discourses would be translated into measurable variables, being the basis for collecting, analysing, and reporting data and information. Our study examined the connection between major international forest reporting processes and forest discourses. We analysed summaries and key findings for policy makers of five recent major forest reports. We compared their focus with forest discourses on climate change, forest conservation, deforestation, forest decline, illegal logging, industrial forestry/bioeconomy, traditional knowledge, woody biomass production, and innovative wood-based biofuels. The paper explores how the forest discourses are reflected in the surveyed documents and closely examines the specific focus areas in the summaries for policy makers. The results show that most forest discourses are generally well-represented, albeit with different foci. The discourse on illegal logging could not be identified in any investigated documents, even though it remains a significant concern for international forest policy. Keywords related to traditional knowledge and woody biomass production could not be found in two of the analysed findings. All analysed summaries and key findings mention issues related to the climate change discourse topic. However, they lack information on emissions from deforestation, carbon dioxide emissions and carbon budgets, which are high in political discussions. The paper highlights how discourse issues have gained in complexity both topic-wise and regarding the reporting obligations, as policy and decisionmakers require more timely and comprehensive information about the status' and trends of forests.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Key information for forest policy decision-making - Does current reporting on forests and forestry reflect forest discourses?

Linser,

Lier,

Bastrup-Birk

2023

iForest

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“…In the given instances, nonhuman (animal) agency tends to be enacted through human, often colonial practices of delivering ethics concerns for nonhumans, while increasing the precarities of Indigenous communities and local people. For example, protected areas are enacted as sites of exclusion and violence (Iordȃchescu and Vasile, 2023).…”

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“…According to her, mainstream environmental management – including national legislative and judicial structures in many (post)colonial countries – continues to be informed predominantly by Western colonial understandings of the relationships between society/people and nature that excludes and marginalises Indigenous and local people. Despite Lorimer’s (2012) claim that the Anthropocene manifests ‘the public death’ of the nature–society divide (p. 593), recently, Iordăchescu and Vasile (2023) have also pointed to a contrary turn that reinstates the nature–society divide through the development and implementation of prohibitive, and even criminalising, conservation policies (e.g. through severe restrictions on local people’s use of protected areas).…”

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Socio-ecological precarity at the juncture of multiple crises

Petrova

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Drawing upon the literature on the critical geographies of precarity, as well as feminist readings of non- and more-than-human geographies and political ecologies, this review proposes a socio-ecological precarity framеwork to address gaps in discussions and examinations of nonhuman vulnerabilities, forms of resistance, and infrastructures of conviviality and care. Socio-ecological precarity is posited as relational, politically generative, and transformative.

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Applicability of pre-trained CNNs in temperate deforestation detection

Coţolan,

Moldovan

2024

European Journal of Remote Sensing

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Forests of Fear: Illegal Logging, Criminalization, and Violence in the Carpathian Mountains

Cited by 5 publications

References 57 publications

Key information for forest policy decision-making - Does current reporting on forests and forestry reflect forest discourses?

Key information for forest policy decision-making - Does current reporting on forests and forestry reflect forest discourses?

Socio-ecological precarity at the juncture of multiple crises

Applicability of pre-trained CNNs in temperate deforestation detection

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