The challenges of redistributing forest-related monetary benefits to local governments: A decade of logging area fees in Cameroon
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2010
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Cerutti, Paolo
Lescuyer, Guillaume
Assembe-mvondo, Samuel
Tacconi, Luca
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Commonwealth Forestry Association
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The Cameroonian regulatory framework on forest, wildlife and fisheries requires logging companies to pay an Area Fee (AF), half of which must be redistributed to rural councils (40%) and villages (10%) neighbouring the logging concessions. The AF had the
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Keywords: forest management; forestry policy; local government; policy implementation; regulatory framework; rural development; selective logging; sustainable forestry; user fee; Cameroon Area Fee; Cameroon; regulatory framework; rural councils; rural development
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International Forestry Review
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