Introduction The value of forests can be found on its features as a reservoir of fibre, fuel, wood and non-wood forest products susceptible to economic exploration, as a food source, as a habitat with a variety of wildlife, as a principal reservoir of biodiversity and as carbon sinks. Forests, however, have been recently devastated. Estimated data from the Brazilian National Institute of Space Research (INPE) … Continuer de lire Forest certification: an alternative project to limited and ineffective international environmental treaties by Tiago Megale

In the last ten years, the concept of the commons became popular in social studies and political activism and in some countries domestic lawyers have shared the interest for this notion. Even if an (existing or proposed) statutory definition of the commons is still very rare, lawyers get familiar with the concept of the commons through the filter of property law, where such a concept … Continuer de lire The Rise of Urban Commons in Europe by Alessandra Quarta and Antonio Vercellone