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The challenges of redistributing forest-related monetary benefits to local governments: A decade of logging area fees in Cameroon

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Authors

Cerutti, Paolo

Lescuyer, Guillaume

Assembe-mvondo, Samuel

Tacconi, Luca

Publisher

Commonwealth Forestry Association

Abstract

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

Keywords

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

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/18332

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

International Forestry Review

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1505/ifor.12.2.130

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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