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Corruption hinders both the implementation of and compliance with formal forestry laws and regulations in Ecuador in addition to hindering democratically motivated decision-making. The multifaceted consequences of both general corruption and corruption within the forestry sector facilitate and foment deforestation, partially through the hindering effect they have on compliance and implementation. Two types of corruption, petty and grand, were found to play the largest role in the forestry sector in Ecuador. The primary objective of this research was to discover the relationship between corruption and deforestation and determine how corruption contributes to deforestation and degradation in Ecuador. Despite all of the minute technical and political details being pored over to design the REDD mechanism, this research has indicated that disregarding governance issues could have unpleasant and unanticipated consequences with strong implications for the design and implementation of REDD in countries with high corruption and low governance capacity.
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Thomas, J., Vohland, K., Lotze-Campen, H. (2012). Barriers for Avoiding Deforestation in Ecuador. In: Edenhofer, O., Wallacher, J., Lotze-Campen, H., Reder, M., Knopf, B., Müller, J. (eds) Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4540-7_21
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