文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Opportunities for Improved Transparency in the Timber Trade through Scientific Verification

作者：Lowe, Andrew J.[1,2] Dormontt, Eleanor E.[1] Bowie, Matthew J.[1] Degen, Bernd[3] Gardner, Shelley[4,5] Thomas, Darren[2] Clarke, Caitlin[2] Rimbawanto, Anto[6] Wiedenhoeft, Alex[7] Yin, Yafang[8] Sasaki, Nophea[1,9]

第一作者：Lowe, Andrew J.

通信作者：Lowe, AJ[1];Lowe, AJ[2]

机构：[1]Univ Adelaide, Sch Biol Sci, Ctr Conservat Sci & Technol, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia;[2]Double Helix Tracking Technol, Singapore, Singapore;[3]Thunen Inst Forest Genet, Grosshansdorf, Germany;[4]US Forest Serv, USDA, Int Programs, Washington, DC 20250 USA;[5]US Dept Justice, INTERPOL Washington, Econ Crimes Div, Washington, DC 20530 USA;[6]FORDA Ctr Forest Biotechnol & Tree Improvement, Yogyakarta, Indonesia;[7]US Forest Serv, USDA, Forest Prod Lab, Madison, WI USA;[8]Chinese Acad Forestry, Res Inst Wood Ind, Dept Wood Anat & Utilizat, Beijing, Peoples R China;[9]Univ Hyogo, Grad Sch Appl Informat, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

年份：2016

卷号：66

期号：11

起止页码：990-998

外文期刊名：BIOSCIENCE

收录：;Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-85008719044);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000387463900011)】；

基金：This work was funded through ITTO grant no. TFL-PD 037/13 and ACIAR grants nos. FST/2014/028 and FST-2015-007 awarded to AJL. The authors gratefully acknowledge the US Department of Justice's Joseph Poux, the UK Border Agency's Guy Clarke, and Environment Canada's Jean-Francois Dubois for their constructive comments on table 1. The authors also thank Dr. Rob Ogden, Dr. Edgard Espinoza, Dr. Martin Breed, and the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback, which greatly improved the quality of the manuscript.

语种：英文

外文关键词：certification; illegal logging; scientific verification; timber trade; wood identification

摘要：In May 2014, the Member States of the United Nations adopted Resolution 23/1 on "strengthening a targeted crime prevention and criminal justice response to combat illicit trafficking in forest products, including timber." The resolution promotes the development of tools and technologies that can be used to combat the illicit trafficking of timber. Stopping illegal logging worldwide could substantially increase revenue from the legal trade in timber and halt the associated environmental degradation, but law enforcement and timber traders themselves are hampered by the lack of available tools to verify timber legality. Here, we outline how scientific methods can be used to verify global timber supply chains. We advocate that scientific methods are capable of supporting both enforcement and compliance with respect to timber laws but that work is required to expand the applicability of these methods and provide the certification, policy, and enforcement frameworks needed for effective routine implementation.