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Much has been published on the impacts of logging in tropical forests for timber, but relatively little has yet been written about the effects of felling hardwood and softwood trees for commercial scale woodcarving enterprises. Carving out a Future is the first thorough examination of the international woodcarving trade and its critical links to rural livelihoods, deforestation, biodiversity and conservation, forestry and forest policy and the international trade regime. A range of case studies from Australia, India, Africa and Mexico provide a lens for examining the critical issues relating to the significant impacts of woodcarving on forests, conservation efforts, the need to promote sustainable rural livelihoods and efforts to promote fair trade so that skilled artisans in developing countries get a fair economic return.

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Anthony Cunningham is an ethnobotanist working at Charles Darwin University in Western Australia. He is also Director of People and Plants International. Brian Belcher is Principal Scientist for the Forests and Livelihoods programme at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. Bruce Campbell conducts research on conservation and development issues for both Charles Darwin University and CIFOR.

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