Forests in International Law Is There Really a Need for an Internati

This book investigates the potential need for an international convention on forests and establishes a multifunctional concept of forests as a cornerstone for international forest regulation. Accordingly, it examines a variety of international instruments

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Forests in International Law Is There Really a Need for an International Forest Convention?

Forests in International Law

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Anja Eikermann

Forests in International Law Is There Really a Need for an International Forest Convention?

Anja Eikermann Faculty of Law Georg-August-University Go¨ttingen Go¨ttingen, Germany

ISBN 978-3-319-14949-3 ISBN 978-3-319-14950-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-14950-9

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Acknowledgements

This book could not have been written without the support of many people. First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Prof. Dr. Peter-Tobias Stoll for encouragement and trust, constructive conversations, inspiring thoughts and for continuously providing opportunities for professional and personal development. Furthermore, I am particularly grateful for the help of Johannes Ju¨rging for reading and commenting on my work with so much analytic expertise and a keen sense of the essential and even more for many conversations. All the members of the Department of International Economic and Environmental Law as well as of the Institute of Public International and European Law of the Go¨ttingen University provide for a pleasant, supportive and constructive working atmosphere. I enjoyed working and studying in this environment throughout all the years, and it builds up the cornerstone of this book. I would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Nele Matz-Lu¨ck and Prof. Dr. Andreas Paulus, as members of my thesis committee, as well as PD Dr. Marcus Schladebach, as second assessor of the thesis, for their generous support. I was privileged to be a member of the doctoral programme “Biodiversity and Society” under the au