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Financial viability of forest certification in industrial plantations: a case study from the Solomon Islands

open access: yes, 2016
Forest certification has been promoted to encourage sustainable use of natural forests. While its use in industrial plantation forests has not always been welcomed (World Rainforest Movement 2002), forest certification offers great opportunities in the ...
Lal, Padma, Pesce, Fabio
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Economic Impact of the Implementation of Chain of Custody (CoC) Certification in Sawmilling in Malaysia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Chain of Custody (CoC) certification has influenced the market of forestproducts since the establishment of forest certification in early the 1990s. CoC certification is one way for companies to promote and market their forest products from a sustainably
Ab Ghani, Nor Suryani
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Eco-labels on the range and in the forests of the interior Northwest [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
2 pagesFor more than two decades, advocates have been developing programs to certify products as coming from well-managed lands. However, participation in certification programs is fairly low among landowners in at least some western states.
Ellison, Autumn   +2 more
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Private experiments in global governance : primary commodity roundtables and the politics of deliberation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Emerging scholarship on global governance offers ever-more detailed analyses of private regulatory regimes. These regimes aim to regulate some area of social activity without a mandate from, or participation of, states or international organizations ...
Brassett, James   +2 more
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Does forest certification conserve biodiversity?

open access: yesOryx, 2003
Forest certification provides a means by which producers who meet stringent sustainable forestry standards can identify their products in the marketplace, allowing them to potentially receive greater market access and higher prices for their products. An examination of the ways in which certification may contribute to biodiversity conservation leads to
openaire   +1 more source

Landowner Driven Sustainable Forest Management and Value-Added Processing [PDF]

open access: yes
The Massachusetts Woodlands Cooperative, LLC (MWC) is working to help members conduct sustainable forestry of the highest standards while increasing financial returns from harvest activities.
David T. Damery
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Forests and climate change: adaptation and mitigation [PDF]

open access: yes
ETFRN news No. 50: Forests and Climate Change: adaptation and mitigation. This newsletter contains interesting materials for those who think about the question how to proceed with forests and climate change after Copenhagen, with or without an agreement.
Bodegom, A.J., van   +2 more
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A conjoint analysis of New Zealand consumer preference for environmentally certified forest products [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Paper presented at Sustainable Production of Forest Products 2000, IUFRO Division 5 Research Group 5.12, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2000.The study examines the relative importance to New Zealand consumers of environmental certification compared to ...
Bigsby, Hugh, Gan, C, Ozanne, Lucie
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On the certification of forest concession: non-governmental organizations, enterprises, and the construction of a new institutional frame for the development of the lumber industry in the Brazilian Amazon

open access: yesBoletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2011
The article discusses the construction process of forest certification in the Brazilian Amazon, emphasizing its importance for the new frame of lumber industry on that region.
Marcelo Sampaio Carneiro
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