%0 Research article
%T Monitoring and information reporting through regulation: an inter-jurisdictional comparison of forestry-related hard laws
%A Hickey, Gordon M.
%A Innes, John L.
%D 2006
%J Silva Fennica
%V 40
%N 2
%R doi:10.14214/sf.347
%U https://silvafennica.fi/article/347
%X In most jurisdictions, the rule of law has been the core instrument used  to implement rules, regulations and restrictions relating to forests.  The results of this approach have relied on the effectiveness of the  system for regulating through monitoring and reporting. Despite the  obvious differences in the wider operating environment of forestry  internationally, issues related to globalization have increased the need  for comparison. The potential impact of certain social, economic and  environmental differences on the nature of monitoring and information  reporting is, therefore, important to forest policy and management. The  analysis presented here considered data associated with forestry-related  monitoring and information reporting to provide a comparative  description of certain hard-law requirements in a sample of  jurisdictions. This was done to shed light on the potential for  coordinated monitoring and information reporting objectives to be  mandated through inter-jurisdictional hard law. Our research suggests  that further comparative analysis of hard law monitoring and information  reporting requirements could form a central theme in defining the  ‘ground rules’ of a global forest law.