FROM THE Social and ENVIRONMENTAL Sustainability OF NATIVE FOREST: Doctorate in Development

Countries like Brazil have an enormous potential for wood charcoal production, due to the large stock of native forests. Over the decades, the native forest charcoal production chain has always been full of illegalities. This work showed that the problems decreased with regard to labour analogous to slavery conditions to which coal workers were subjected and increased with respect to the high degree of corruption practiced by environmental agents, technicians and managers that become rich by not implementing the necessary transparency within control and audit systems. Through documentation survey and semi-structured interviews with small charcoal workers this study aims at understanding the organization of the exploitation of native forest charcoal in Brazil at environmental, social and economic levels in order to map the production chain, identify the actors, weaknesses and vulnerabilities of forest management, the systems of accountability and control and of the criminal investigation process.

Pagina's: 256, Paperback, Novas Edições Acadêmicas