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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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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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Comparative analysis of the requirements of the Russian forest legislation and FSC forest certification [PDF]
Сибирский лесной журнал, 2022 Nowadays, internationally recognized voluntary forest certification schemes are widely used in Russia: more than a third of all forests leased to loggers are certified according to international standards.
O. A. Prituzhalova, M. V. Gorshkova
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Awareness Towards Chain of Custody Certification in Africa: the Case of Ghana
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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EXPLORlNG THE DEVELOPMENT IN FOREST CERTlFlCATION
Forestist, 2002 Forest certification refers to a process by which a forest company undergoes an independent assessment and audiı of its forest management system in addition to government regulations and other requirements.
Emin Zeki BAŞKENT +1 more
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From voluntary private to mandatory state governance in Indonesian forest certification: Reclaiming authority by bureaucracies [PDF]
Forest and Society, 2018 Forest certification has been introduced by non-state actors as a voluntary and market-based instrument addressing forest problems, which state policies failed to resolve. Lately, however, state-driven forest-related certification schemes can be observed,
Agung Wibowo, Lukas Giessen
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