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Forests in fragile and conflict-affected states
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Harwell, Emily E. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | A significant body of research over the last decade has demonstrated the linkage between poverty, armed conflict, and weak state governance. Further, some analysts have noted that rigid adherence to a template of structural adjustment and austerity measures while neglecting the roles of governance weakness and insecurity in development has often failed to produce the economic growth these reforms were intended to stimulate. As a result, academics and development practitioners, including the World Bank, have increasingly recognized that states exemplifying this nexus of human vulnerability and state failure suffer from a complex array of weaknesses, including in economic management, but also in political legitimacy, regulatory quality, social inclusion, provision of physical security and basic services, which therefore require a diverse mix of interventions. Such states have come to be known as 'fragile states'. Further, analysis of the association between forests and conflict has focused primarily on correlations, leaving the causal pathways between forests, weakened governance and violence poorly understood. For example, the dependence on forest income (as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product, or GDP) has been demonstrated to be a poor predictor of violent conflict. Likewise, the proportion of national land area under forest cover is a poor predictor of state fragility or of outbreaks of armed civil or international conflict. Indeed, there is no correlation whatsoever with the likelihood of a country falling becoming a failed state and the percent of its land area under forest. |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 83 |
| Page Count | 83 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/9108/WDR2011_0027.pdf;sequence=1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/442051468332483350/pdf/620350WP0Fores0BOX0361475B00PUBLIC0.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
