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MSU alum, Boen Purnama, discusses timber markets and sustainable forest management


Posted By: Connor Sullivan    Published: Thursday, 26 Jan 2012

Boen Purnam says markets can provide both positive and negative impacts on sustainable forest management. The existence of illegal markets for timber in combination with a distorted domestic market has become one cause of a rampant illegal logging business and is contributing to forest degradation and deforestation.

Link to the video. (http://isp.msu.edu/multimedia/?video=1-14-46)

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