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- Title
Fragmented Forests: Who Wins in Fractured Environmental Regimes?
- Authors
Cox, Emma
- Abstract
Scholars have sought to explain the development of successful environmental regimes, but comparatively little attention is given to international forest law. The literature that does concern forests is primarily focused on why there still remains no forest convention in the catalog of multilateral environmental agreements or whether the vast conglomerate of hard and soft law for forests constitutes a regime complex. Following the recommendation of Giessen, this article focuses on an unexplored facet of forests and aims to determine the winners of the International Forest Regime Complex (IFRC) utilizing literature, state government and UN documents. I assert the benefactors of the IFRC transcend the traditional framework of the Global North and South as the fragmented nature of the regime complex unites the interests of states who economically and politically profit from business-as-usual (BAU) deforestation practices. The United States and Malaysia are used as empirical case studies. These cases are particularly notable considering that the two states represented the opposing sides of North and South in the failed negotiations for a forest convention in 1992. I conclude by discussing the implications for future international forest policy and decision makers addressing climate chaos.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTAL policy; SUSTAINABLE development; DEFORESTATION
- Publication
Towson University Journal of International Affairs, 2022, Vol 55, Issue 2, p158
- ISSN
1530-1656
- Publication type
Article