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A Comparative Analysis of Five Forest Certification Programs

Forests, 2020
International expansion of forest certification programs has occurred over the last three decades. Both public and private organizations have shown increased interest in becoming certified by one or more forest certification bodies, to assure the public ...
Alba Rocio Gutierrez Garzon, P. Bettinger, J. Siry, J. Abrams, C. Cieszewski, K. Boston, B. Mei, H. Zengin, A. Yeşil   +8 more
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Effect of Forest Certification on International Trade in Forest Products

Forests, 2020
Forest certification plays an important role in the global trade of legal, sustainably harvested timber. There is no accurate definition of how international forest certification systems impact international trade from a global perspective. This paper is
Jiaojiao Chen, Lanhui Wang, Lingchao Li, J. Magalhães, Weiming Song, Wenming Lu, Lichun Xiong, Wei-Yew Chang, Yu-jun Sun   +8 more
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Solutions for methane mitigation in Brazilian agriculture: achieving a 28% reduction by 2035

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest methane emitter, with methane accounting for 24% of national greenhouse gas emissions and the agricultural sector responsible for 75.6% of these methane emissions, mainly from livestock.
Gabriel de Oliveira Quintana, Renata Fragoso Potenza, Sofia Lasmar Lima Oliveira   +2 more
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Environmental activity and forest certification in marketing of forest products – a case study in Europe

Silva Fennica, 2003
Forest industries and their industrial customers from four European countries were surveyed by interviews to study the environmental emphasis and the role of timber certification in their marketing planning.
Kärnä, Jari, Hansen, Eric, Juslin, Heikki   +2 more
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Evaluation of forest cover loss in properties in the Sierra Madre Occidental, State of Durango, Mexico, certified by the Forest Stewardship Council

Trees, Forests and People, 2023
Currently, most of the world's forests are governed by policies and regulations that contribute to sustainable forest management. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), a voluntary, non-governmental mechanism, proposes a market-based international ...
Aide Heredia-Telles, Pablito M. López-Serrano, Matthieu Molinier, Christian Wehenkel   +3 more
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Factors affecting perceptions and attitudes of forest engineers working in the forestry organization towards green products

Turkish Journal of Forestry, 2023
This research was carried out to measure the perceptions and attitudes of forest engineers working in the forestry organization about green products.
Gökhan Topaloğlu, Hasan Alkan
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Assessments of Landowners’ Willingness to Accept Compensation for Participating in Forest Certification in Shandong, China

Sustainability, 2020
Achieving sustainable management of forests in China is becoming increasingly important with more awareness and realization of the importance of forests in environmental protection.
N. Tian, N. Poudyal, Fadian Lu
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The social welfare effect of forest certification under environmental spillovers

Chinese Journal of Population, Resources and Environment, 2022
Forest certification has positive environmental spillovers. Considering environmental spillovers, this study analyzed the social welfare effects of forest certification using partial and general equilibrium methods. The results of the partial equilibrium
Zhijie Guan, Yue Zhang, Yan Xu
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The Dilemma of Maintaining Intact Forest Through Certification

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2019
Intact forests are natural and often extensive forests free from apparent anthropogenic degradation. Intact forests have important intrinsic and societal values, making their protection a high conservation priority. They are, however, vulnerable to being
Fritz Kleinschroth, Tim Rayden, Jaboury Ghazoul, Jaboury Ghazoul, Jaboury Ghazoul   +4 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

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, Camilla Sandström, Maria Tysiachniouk, Johanna Johansson   +3 more
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