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Forest Certification: Toward Common Standards? [PDF]

, 2005
The forestry industry provides a good illustration of the active roles that industry associations, environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), national governments, and international organizations can play in developing and promoting codes of conduct that are formally sanctioned and certified.
Fischer, Carolyn, Aguilar, Francisco X., Jawahar, Puja, Sedjo, Roger A., Fischer, Carolyn, Aguilar, Francisco X., Jawahar, Puja, Sedjo, Roger A.   +7 more
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Forest certification—an instrument to promote sustainable forest management?

Journal of Environmental Management, 2003
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. Initially pushed by environmental groups, it quickly evolved as a potential instrument to promote sustainable forest management (SFM).
Ewald, Rametsteiner, Markku, Simula
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Forest Certification

1999
ISSUES IN FOREST CERTIFICATION Improvements Crucial to Successful Implementation of Forest Certification Why Certification is Relevant ROOTS OF FOREST CERTIFICATION: ITS DEVELOPMENTAL HISTORY, TYPES OF APPROACHES, AND STATISTICS Origins of the Concept of Forest Certification Other Relevant Initiatives in Forest Certification The Certification of ...
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Forest certification and democracy

European Journal of Forest Research, 2010
This paper explores the possibility that forest certification represents an important emerging form of transnational democracy. Because it is largely driven and administered by nonstate actors, forest certification can be seen as suffering a democracy deficit.
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Does Eco-Certification Stem Tropical Deforestation? Forest Stewardship Council Certification in Mexico [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Abstract Since its creation more than 25 years ago as a voluntary, market-based approach to improving forest management, forest certification has proliferated rapidly in developing countries. Yet we know little about whether and under what conditions it affects deforestation.
Allen Blackman, Leonard Goff, Marisol Rivera Planter   +2 more
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Forest certification and communities

International Forestry Review, 2004
From its inception, forest certification aimed to address social as well as environmental goals. The FSC, its certifiers, and supporting donors aggressively supported community certification. As of 2003, 50 communities worldwide have received forest management certificates or chain of custody certification, and many other forest communities have been ...
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Forest Certification in Collectively Owned Forest Areas and Sustainable Forest Management: A Case of Cooperative-Based Forest Certification in China

Small-scale Forestry, 2015
This paper presents a successful case of forest certification of organized small forestland holders in China and examines problems and challenges encountered. The Forest Stewardship Council certification of forestland of Longquan Nengfu Professional Cooperative for Forestation is analyzed to illustrate the feasibility of forest certification in the ...
Ming He, Zhimin Wu, Wei Li, Yanru Zeng
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Forest Stewardship Council Forest Certification

Conservation Biology, 2001
Henry A. Cauley, Charles M. Peters, Richard Z. Donovan, Jennifer M. O'Connor   +3 more
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Forest Certification and Forest Use

2020
Frederick W. Cubbage, Erin O. Sills
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Issues in Forest Certification

1999
Anna Fanzeres, Kristiina Vogt, Jennifer O’Hara, John Gordon, Daniel Vogt, Bruce Larson, Peter Palmiotto   +6 more
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