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Forest Certification - Roots, Issues, Challenges, and Benefits (Paperback)
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Forest Certification - Roots, Issues, Challenges, and Benefits (Paperback)
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Forest certification has been widely accepted as a tool that would
encourage industrial and non-industrial management of resources in
an environmentally acceptable, socially beneficial and economically
viable manner. Much has been written on certification yet five
issues have been missing, which this book addresses: an analysis of
the scientific basis for the certification standards; a formal and
mechanistic incorporation of social and natural system
sustainability as part of the standards; the rationale for the
different sets of standards that are currently being used to
certify governmental, industrial and non-industrial organizations;
the success of the different sets of standards in assessing the
environmental acceptability, social benefits and economic viability
of the managed system; and, the difficulty of certifying small
landowners with current protocols. Forest Certification examines
the historical roots of forest certification, the factors that
guide the development of certification protocols, the players
involved in certification, the factors determining the customers to
be certified, and the benefits of certification. The book also
covers the terminology and other issues intrinsic to certification
that direct the structure of standards, the similarities between
indicators of different human disturbances within the
ecosystem/landscape and certification standards, and, finally, a
case study evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of existing
certification protocols. Forest Certification is unique in its
analysis of the scientific basis for the structure of the forest
certification protocols. It documents the roles of human values in
the development of assessment protocols but demonstrates how
elements of existing protocols should be used to produce non-value
based standards.
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