Ensuring Sustainability in Forestry - Certification of Forests (Hardcover)

Ensuring Sustainability in Forestry: Certification of Forests details the concepts and approaches required to meet the desired international standards of forest certification. It brings together important issues related to forest certification, which need to be applied and utilized in the context of forests in India in the present scenario. It also focuses on economic factors, greening of certification processes, and the interface between technical and business knowledge. Drawing on a wealth of information provided by valuable studies across the globe, this volume discusses forest certification and its impact on conservation and development of biodiversity. It is a comprehensive and detailed guide for forest managers, owners, and consultants; government foresters; and forest product traders. It includes an introduction to the concept of certification and its origin and spread in India. It offers a comparison of various schemes of certification. It has focus on emerging issues and challenges of certification and its future. There is coverage of marketing and economics aspects of forest certification. It offers an examination of the relationship between certification and climate change and environmental conservation. It also includes a development of a certification strategy for India.

General

Imprint:	The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI
Country of origin:	India
Release date:	February 2013
Editors:	H. S. Gupta • M. Yadav • D.K. Sarma
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	284
ISBN-13:	978-81-7993-495-1
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Forestry & related industries
LSN:	81-7993-495-0
Barcode:	9788179934951

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