This special issue originated from a series of case studies prepared for the EU-funded project "Policy and regulatory options to recognize and better integrate the domestic timber sector in tropical countries".

Full list of articles in this special issue are:

• Formalization as Development in Land and Natural Resource Policy, page 453-472
• Frontiers of Commodification: State Lands and Their Formalization, page 473-495
• Formalization and Collective Appropriation of Space on Forest Frontiers: Comparing Communal and Individual Property Systems in the Peruvian and Ecuadoran Amazon, page 496-512
• Market Formalization, Governance, and the Integration of Community Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon, page 513-529
• Formalizing the Logging Sector in Indonesia: Historical Dynamics and Lessons for Current Policy Initiatives, page 530-542
• Shifting Formalization Policies and Recentralizing Power: The Case of Zimbabwe’s Artisanal Gold Mining Sector, page 543-558
• Formalization of the Natural Product Trade in Southern Africa: Unintended Consequences and Policy Blurring in Biotrade and Bioprospecting, page 559-574

Authors: Putzel, L.

Subjects: development policy, environmental policy, land policy, natural resources, tenure systems, logging, land ownership, mining, property rights, natural resources

Publication type: Journal Issue, Publication

Year: 2015

ISSN: 0894-1920