Tropical forests are important regulators of the flux and storage of carbon, water, and energy in the Biosphere, and they are the habitat of more than three-fourths of the world’s plant and animal species. These ecosystems are also undergoing rapid conversion through pasture formation, shifting cultivation and timber highgrading as the people of tropical nations turn to forestlands for sustenance and wealth.
Institutional subversion and deforestation: learning lessons from the system for the environmental licensing of rural properties in Mato Grosso
Institutional subversion and deforestation: learning lessons from the system for the environmental licensing of rural properties in Mato Grosso
This article contributes to the public administration and environmental governance literature by proposing the notion of ‘institutional subversion’ as a way of describing how the strategies adopted by local actors may change and even go against the initial aims of...