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Awareness Towards Chain of Custody Certification in Africa: the Case of Ghana [PDF]
Notulae Scientia Biologicae, 2010 Forest certification was introduced in the early 1990s to address concerns of deforestation and forest degradation and to promote the maintenance of biological diversity, especially in the tropics.
Alhassan ATTAH +3 more
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Local Consequences of Applying International Norms: Differences in the Application of Forest Certification in Northern Sweden, Northern Finland, and Northwest Russia [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2009 Forest certification, developed in the early 1990s, is a process in which independent assessors grant use of the certification label to producers who meet certain environmental and social criteria set for their forest products.
E. Carina H. Keskitalo +3 more
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Forest certification map of Europe [PDF]
iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2018 Forests cover nearly 40% of European land, with different country percentage and patchy distribution. The European forestry sector highlights that forest areas have different ownership: private (by firms, individual, or organizations) and public (State ...
Maesano M +6 more
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Trees, Forests and People, 2022 Forest certification was introduced in the late 1980s as a countermeasure to address the deforestation and forest degradation issues which caused major concern among environmental activists. Forest certification was promoted as a voluntary tool to ensure
Eleine Juliana Malek +1 more
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Environmental Challenges, 2022 Forests offer provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting ecosystem services, and sustaining these services is becoming increasingly important. Forest certification programs serve as a viable market-based mechanism for enhancing sustainable forest
Nana Tian +4 more
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Progress of forest certification in China [PDF]
Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, 2017 The Chinese Government is committed to forest certification as a market-based instrument to promote sustainable forest management. Forest certification includes a number of regulations, rules and policy paradigms related to certification and there are ...
Wenming LU, Maharaj MUTHOO
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Journal of Forest Science, 2023 This study analyses the perception of the relationship between forest certification and the production of ecosystem services by Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) sustainable forest ...
Emanuela Lombardo
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Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 2021 Forest certification is an efficient tool for the utilization of important and economically viable forest products and linking them to sustainable forest management practices ensuring their sustainable utilization.
Sanchi Singh, Sudipto Chatterjee
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Biochar is a rich carbon product obtained by pyrolysis of biomass under a limited supply of oxygen. It is composed mainly of aromatic molecules, but its agronomic value is hard to evaluate and difficult to predict due to its great variable ...
Marta Luigi +11 more
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Forest certification evaluation processes and their effects on sustainable forest management
Turkish Journal of Forestry, 2023 Certification studies in forestry consist of two separate parts: forest certification and forest products certificate. In particular, the prerequisite for obtaining a forest products certificate is the need to use products obtained from forests with a ...
Yunus Aydın, Ayhan Akyol
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