Certification of tropical forests: from impact assessment to political economy? [PDF]
, 2018 Certification has not reduced deforestation in tropical countries. However, improving the management of productive forests would indirectly contribute to preventing deforestation through sustainable forest-oriented development of a territory.
Karsenty, Alain
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Does forest management certification halt forest loss at country level? A global analysis
Cleaner Production LettersForests play a vital role in regulating the global climate, supporting biodiversity, and sustaining the livelihoods of approximately 1.6 billion people. However, unsustainable forest management continues to drive widespread forest loss.
Saskia Dröge +3 more
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Bridging Certification and Community Forestry through NTFPs: A Case Study from Nepal [PDF]
, 2014 Issue - For a variety of reasons, community forestry is not always well suited to existing forest certification schemes. Using the case of Nepal, this paper considers the extent to which promoting the trade in nontimber forest products can complement ...
Ebrahim, Naazia +3 more
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Recent evolutions of forest concessions status and dynamics in Central Africa [PDF]
, 2017 Forest concessions in Central Africa are being subjected to a combination of pressures from agribusiness investments, population growth and the informalisation of the domestic timber trade. This puts them at a crossroad.
Ferron, C., Karsenty, Alain
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Global bamboo forest certification: The state of the art
Advances in Bamboo ScienceIllegal logging is an important cause of deforestation and forest degradation. As a voluntary market-driven mechanism, sustainable forest management certification aims to reduce illegal logging in forests and promote sustainable management practices by ...
Yanxia Li, Yanjie Hu, Kun Li
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Forest certification as a tool to support sustainable development in forest management
Journal of Forest Science, 2015 The concept of sustainable development is currently known and used in many contexts across a wide range of industries. Nevertheless, specific approaches to achieving the strategy of sustainability can be found in the individual sectors. The beginnings of
A. Mikulková +3 more
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Certification Systems as Tools for Natural Asset Building: Potential, Experiences to Date, and Critical Challenges [PDF]
, 2005 Certification systems are becoming important tools to encourage and reward social and environmental responsibility. This paper explores whether these systems, which generally have not been designed for the explicit aim of poverty reduction, can assist ...
Michael E. Conroy
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Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2014 Considerable discussion and theoretical reviews of forest certification systems have been published that outline the potential impact of forest certification on biodiversity and wildlife habitat.
David Euler
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FSC or Business as usual? Social impacts of forest certification in Cameroon [PDF]
, 2011 FSC or Business as usual? Social impacts of forest certification in Cameroon The paradigm of Sustainable Forest Management is central in the forestry laws enacted over the latest decades in the Congo Basin countries. However its implementation, and hence
Cerutti, Paolo Omar +2 more
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Reconciling certification and intact forest landscape conservation [PDF]
Ambio, 2018 ISSN:0044 ...
Fritz Kleinschroth +2 more
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