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Certification Systems as Tools for Natural Asset Building: Potential, Experiences to Date, and Critical Challenges [PDF]
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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Green public procurement of certified wood : impact on international trade and global welfare [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates the impact of green public procurement (governments’ purchases) of certified wood in the EU. A spatial partial price equilibrium model is developed to analyse whether this policy impacts interregional trade flows of wood and other
Brusselaers, Jan +2 more
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Sustainable Forest management: example of implementation of PEFC certification schemes
Forest@, 2006 After a short description of forest certification standards, the Authors outline PEFC certification schemes implemented in a study-case (municipal forest of Montano Antilia, in the National Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano, South of Italy), discussing ...
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The environmental resource curse hypothesis: the forest case [PDF]
The resource curse hypothesis relies on the resource-rich countries tendency to grow slower than resource-poor countries. Focusing on forest issues, this paper extends the resource curse hypothesis to environmental degradation: how do forest endowment ...
Olivier Damette, Philippe Delacote
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Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands ManagementThe implementation of degraded land rehabilitation programs and community-based forest management certification is widely recognised to enhance the status of wono land cover and aid in climate change mitigation.
Adhe Viana Yulida Putri +2 more
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Assisted natural regeneration: a tool for degraded tropical forests [PDF]
, 2011 A major part of anthropic impacts on natural tropical forests in central Africa is related to unmanaged shifting agriculture and fuelwood extraction by local communities, mainly along access tracks (roads, rivers,...)and at the edge of forests.
Dubiez, Emilien +3 more
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Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2012 The integration of improved environmental or sustainable aspects in forest management is often affiliated with the rise of market-driven governance systems, such as forest certification.
Moritz Albrecht
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Journal of Forest ScienceThe forest certification is a voluntary programme to ensure that the timber harvested from forests is processed in a sustainable manner by following specific standards.
Shah Badri Mohd Nor +2 more
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Is there a commercial case for tropical timber certification? [PDF]
The authors estimate the potential commercial benefits that tropical timber producing countries could enjoy by adopting timber certification schemes. Such benefits are crucial for encouraging the supply of certified timber.
Braga, Carlos A. Primo +2 more
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Social policies of forest concessionaires in West and Central Africa [PDF]
, 2008 Timber concessions in West and Central Africa have traditionally left a dismal record in terms of social policies that go back to the colonial period, yet these same policies have undergone unprecedented change in a limited number of concessions over the
Jégou, Chloé +2 more
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