The Rents of Illegal Logging: The Mechanisms behind the Rush on Forest Resources in Southeast Albania
Since the collapse of socialism, Central and Eastern Europe has experienced a massive rush on forest resources. This paper examines the concrete mechanisms through which the postsocialist transformation has spurred this rush through a case study of a forest sector in southeastern Albania, where vari...
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| description | Since the collapse of socialism, Central and Eastern Europe has experienced a massive rush on forest resources. This paper examines the concrete mechanisms through which the postsocialist transformation has spurred this rush through a case study of a forest sector in southeastern Albania, where various kinds of actors collide in a struggle over rent from illegal firewood extraction and trade. I argue that the broader political and economic changes of postsocialism have altered rural resource values, changed the mechanisms through which forest users gain access to productive resources, and shifted the creation and distribution of resource rent among actors. Together, these changes affected forest users′ incentives, decision-making and practices. Over the past two decades they have caused this rush and severe forest degradation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-85b993db13274132b97dd181f141a2712022-12-21T20:06:08ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsConservation & Society0972-49230975-31332010-01-0182140150The Rents of Illegal Logging: The Mechanisms behind the Rush on Forest Resources in Southeast AlbaniaStahl JohannesSince the collapse of socialism, Central and Eastern Europe has experienced a massive rush on forest resources. This paper examines the concrete mechanisms through which the postsocialist transformation has spurred this rush through a case study of a forest sector in southeastern Albania, where various kinds of actors collide in a struggle over rent from illegal firewood extraction and trade. I argue that the broader political and economic changes of postsocialism have altered rural resource values, changed the mechanisms through which forest users gain access to productive resources, and shifted the creation and distribution of resource rent among actors. Together, these changes affected forest users′ incentives, decision-making and practices. Over the past two decades they have caused this rush and severe forest degradation.http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2010;volume=8;issue=2;spage=140;epage=150;aulast=Stahlrentforestsillegal loggingfirewoodAlbaniaCentral and Eastern Europe |
| spellingShingle | Stahl Johannes The Rents of Illegal Logging: The Mechanisms behind the Rush on Forest Resources in Southeast Albania Conservation & Society rent forests illegal logging firewood Albania Central and Eastern Europe |
| title | The Rents of Illegal Logging: The Mechanisms behind the Rush on Forest Resources in Southeast Albania |
| title_full | The Rents of Illegal Logging: The Mechanisms behind the Rush on Forest Resources in Southeast Albania |
| title_fullStr | The Rents of Illegal Logging: The Mechanisms behind the Rush on Forest Resources in Southeast Albania |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Rents of Illegal Logging: The Mechanisms behind the Rush on Forest Resources in Southeast Albania |
| title_short | The Rents of Illegal Logging: The Mechanisms behind the Rush on Forest Resources in Southeast Albania |
| title_sort | rents of illegal logging the mechanisms behind the rush on forest resources in southeast albania |
| topic | rent forests illegal logging firewood Albania Central and Eastern Europe |
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