This volume sets down the presentations and discussions of a conference at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies during March 2002 titled ＂Illegal Logging in the Tropics: The
Ecology, Economics, and Policy of Resource Misuse.＂ The contributors offer a diversity of theoretical approaches to the problem. These include analyses of incentives given to local residents to
commit the crimes, the extent to which illegal logging is reflective of governmental failures, the balance between justifiable illegal logging and legitimate state control, and legalization and
its effectiveness in reducing illegal logging. Case studies are offered from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as approaches to intervention. The volume has been co-published
simultaneously as Journal of Sustainable Forestry, v.19, nos.1/2/3 2004. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
