Research documents
This page offers you a shortlisted selection of research documents and working papers, recently published in French or English in international research journals or as monographic web-publications. The shortlist will be updated regularly, and its content will (hopefully) reflect ongoing discussions and our partners' committments to specific research topics and approaches.
FAO - ITTO (2010): Forest governance and climate-change mitigation. A policy brief- 2,04 M 04.03.2010 | 2,096.1 kB Between August 2006 and July 2008, the FAO and the ITTO jointly funded and convened five workshops - in Southeast Asia, West Africa, Central Africa, the Amazon Basin and Mesoamerica - to promote a multi-sectoral dialogue between countries on improving forest law compliance. The present policy brief summarizes the main findings of those workshops and highlights the lessons learned from experiences on the ground related to forest law compliance and governance elements necessary to optimize the role of forests in mitigating climate change.
Duncan Brack (2010): Controlling Illegal Logging: Consumer-Country Measures. Briefing paper – 261 KB 04.03.2010 | 260.4 kB This brief examines a series of measures in more detail which have been taken by consumer countries to try to ensure that they exclude illegal timber products from their markets. It highlights the implications for exporters of timber products to the consumer countries in question.
Alain Karsenty (2009): Deforestation and climate change: Acting on the causes. CIRAD Forests /Climate Change, Perspective no.1. 271 KB. 01.12.2009 | 271.8 kB What the (carbon) market cannot do... A policy brief on the effectiveness of instruments designed to tackle deforestation, with a special emphasis on the REDD mechanism expected to be launched at Copenhagen.
CIRAD- Le Monde: Fight against deforestation; be careful to mirages! 9.384 KB 29.10.2009 | 9,383.2 kB As pressure goes heavier on the eve of the Copenhagen conference on climate change slated from 7 to 18 December and which aims at finding an agreement with regard to REDD, Alain Karsenty, economist in the International Cooperation Centre in Agronomic Research for Development (CIRAD) and expert at the World Bank, warns against this danger during an interview granted to Le Monde newspaper in October 10, 2009 at 3:02 pm. The interview was recorded by Laurence Caramel.
ECOFAC (2009): CANOPÉE- Number 28. 1,52 M 01.10.2009 | 1,566.3 kB
The review is a publication of technical and scientific diffusion of knowledges related to the functioning of Central African ecosystems and protected areas. Amongst topics: Towards a territorial approach of sustainable management of forests resources - Recent advanced in the conservation of the tortoises - Giants behind the trees,...
Helene Muller-Landau (2008) Carbon Cycle: sink in the African Jungle. Nature Vol 457 Feb 2009 25.09.2009 | 1,342.8 kB Apparently pristine African tropical forests are increasing in tree biomass, making them net absorbers of carbon dioxide. Is this a sign of atmospheric change, or of recovery from past trauma? The Smithonian Institute has published an article comparing different research methodologies and resulats, and suggesting that the role of forests in the global carbon cycle is more significant and more complex than commonly appreciated.
A. Karsenty et al (2008) "Regulating Industrial forest concessions in Central Africa and South America", Forest Ecology and Management 256 25.09.2009 | 322.2 kB This paper is the outcome of a collaboration of excellence between the French institutions CIRAD/Sciences Po Paris and the Brazilian PROCAM. It contribues directly to the ongoing discussion concerning systemic incentives in different kind of concession systems and their ability to shape actor's choices for or against a strategy resulting in sustainable forest management..
The Little REDD Book. Global Canopy Programme, November 2008. 25.09.2009 | 1,761.4 kB The "Little REDD Book" is a guide to aid understanding of the UN mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD).
Alain Karsenty (2008) "The architecture of proposed REDD scheme after Bali: facing critical choices" 25.09.2009 | 313.3 kB Alain Karsenty is a researcher at CIRAD, the article has been published in a special edition of The International Forest Review on "REDD and the Evolution of an International Forest Regime".
Making REDD work for the Poor (2008) A Poverty Environment Partnership Report 25.09.2009 | 643.3 kB
Whilst there are many reasons to ‘make REDD work for the poor’, notably the potential to enhance the sustainability of REDD systems by reducing conflict over resources, there are various interpretations of what this would mean in practice. Two major options include ‘no harm’ REDD, which aims to avoid increased threats to the poor, and ‘pro-poor’ REDD, which actively seeks to deliver benefits to the poor. Different stakeholders in REDD may be interested in different options, but there are concerns that adding poverty reduction objectives could reduce the overall effectiveness and efficiency of what is essentially an environmental mechanism.
N. Sasaki et F. Putz (2008) Do Definitions of Forest and Forest Degradation Matter in the REDD Agreement? 25.09.2009 | 140.9 kB
This work, presented during COP14 in Poznan, has been funded through the Harvard Forest’s Charles Bullard Fellowship in Forest Research for Advanced Research and Study
G. Porter, N. Bird, N. Kaur et L. Peskett (2008) "New Finance for Climate Change and the Environment". 25.09.2009 | 1,043.4 kB
This research study, financed by WWF and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, has been undertaken as a joint exercise by Gareth Porter and researchers from the Overseas Development Institute. Overall advice and guidance has been provided by David Reed of the Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Program Office, WWF.
Katerere Y., Minang P.A. and Vanhanen H. (eds.)August 2009. Making Sub-Saharan African Forests Work for People and Nature 25.09.2009 | 938.9 kB