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The EU’s approach to tackling illegal logging in third countries: A comprehensive and political science analysis of the Voluntary Partnership Agreements

The EU’s Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) with timber-producing countries ensure EU market access for verified legal timber products in return for forest governance reforms. This PhD will for the first time systematically (a) map and (b) explain the considerable amount of variation between the 15 VPAs, as well as (c) assess their impact in timber-producing countries through six work packages.

Date:1 Oct 2017 →  30 Sep 2021
Keywords:EU, trade, sustainability
Disciplines:Other economics and business, International and comparative politics, Political behaviour, Political theory and methodology, Multilevel governance, Public administration, National politics, Other political science, Political organisations and institutions, Citizenship, immigration and political inequality