Certification S Impacts On Forests Stakeholders And Supply Chains

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IIED
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Forest management
ISBN : 9781899825875

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Certification's Impacts on Forests, Stakeholders and Supply Chains by Anonim Pdf

People like forests- they have many emotional and cultural attachments to them. They also like forest products - and need increasing quantities of them. But they often don't like, don't understand, and don't trust what comes in between: forest management, which lies at the interface of public services (biodiversity, watersheds, etc) and private goods (timber, food, etc). Certification was developed to independently verify the quality of forest management, to communicate this to market players, and so to improve market benefits for the products of good management. The growing influence of the Forest Stewardship Council is one of the most striking recent developments in forestry. Certification is increasingly common in all continents. But has it actually improved forest management? Has it created sufficient market incentives? Above all, has it enabled trust to develop between stakeholders, so that they can work together better, to build the institutions required for sustainable forest management? This book is the result of two years' study by IIED and collaborators in several countries: it provides evidence for considerable policy and institutional change as a result of certification, and the beginnings of change in forest and market practice.

Author : Neil Judd,Sophie Higman,James Mayers,Stephen Bass,Ruth Nussbaum
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849773317

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The Sustainable Forestry Handbook by Neil Judd,Sophie Higman,James Mayers,Stephen Bass,Ruth Nussbaum Pdf

The Sustainable Forestry Handbook is widely considered to be the essential aid to understanding and implementing sustainable forest management. Providing a clear and concise guide to the practicalities of implementing international standards for sustainable forest management, this fully updated second edition covers new Forest Stewardship Council requirements, High Conservation Value Forests, clearer requirements on pesticides and developments in policy and forest governance. Aimed at forest managers, and employing extensive cross referencing and easy-to-understand illustrations, this highly practical handbook explains in clear terms what the standards require forest managers to do and how they might go about implementing them.

Author : Paolo Omar Cerutti,Guillaume Lescuyer,Raphael Tsanga,Sam Nziengui Kassa,Prisca Roseline Mapangou,Edouard Essiane Mendoula,Aimé Patrick Missamba-Lola,Robert Nasi,Paule Pamela Tabi Eckebil,Régis Yembe Yembe
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786021504307

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Social impacts of the Forest Stewardship Council certification by Paolo Omar Cerutti,Guillaume Lescuyer,Raphael Tsanga,Sam Nziengui Kassa,Prisca Roseline Mapangou,Edouard Essiane Mendoula,Aimé Patrick Missamba-Lola,Robert Nasi,Paule Pamela Tabi Eckebil,Régis Yembe Yembe Pdf

This Occasional Paper assessed the social performance of nine forest management units (FMU) certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and compared it with the performance of nine similar noncertified FMUs in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon. Results showed that the longer one company remained in one place, the deeper social relations with the neighbouring population became. This in itself is conducive to an environment in which there is less conflict between the local population and logging companies. However, it is usually only after companies decided to pursue certification that several practical social improvements occurred. In particular, in certified FMUs, this study found better working and living conditions for workers and their families; more inclusive and better governed institutions for negotiations between the local population and logging companies, except with regard to conflict-resolution mechanisms; better managed and more effective benefit-sharing mechanisms; and innovative ways of dealing with problems related to infringement of customary uses. The complex historical and political-economic reality in which certification has developed in the Congo basin might well make issues of attribution and causality difficult to clarify. Yet results help establish a clear boundary that currently exists between certified and noncertified timber: The former is sourced in FMUs that implement not only legally mandated social standards but also voluntarily adopted ones that are superior and more effective. There should of course be no complacency from the FSC or logging companies with certified FMUs in comparing themselves with the ‘bottom,’ as the logic of the FSC is to reward more responsible forest managers who are assessed against ever-evolving standards, irrespective of the quality of national legislation. But one should also not forget that companies with certified FMUs in the study countries are competing less against a theoretical global logging company than against their neighbours, who daily produce the same species and sell on similar markets, albeit with much lower investments, especially those targeted to improve social performance. In this very competitive and uneven playing field, and with the scarce price premiums obtained so far, the evidence presented indicates that certification in the Congo basin has been able to push companies toward remarkable social progress.

Author : Shashi Kant,Janaki Alavalapati
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781136253294

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Handbook of Forest Resource Economics by Shashi Kant,Janaki Alavalapati Pdf

It is increasingly recognized that the economic value of forests is not merely the production of timber. Forests provide other key ecosystem services, such as being sinks for greenhouse gases, hotspots of biodiversity, tourism and recreation. They are also vitally important in preventing soil erosion and controlling water supplies, as well as providing non-timber forest products and supporting the livelihoods of many local people. This handbook provides a detailed, comprehensive and broad coverage of forest economics, including traditional forest economics of timber production, economics of environmental role of forests, and recent developments in forest economics. The chapters are grouped into six parts: fundamental topics in forest resource economics; economics of forest ecosystems; economics of forests, climate change, and bioenergy; economics of risk, uncertainty, and natural disturbances; economics of forest property rights and certification; and emerging issues and developments. Written by leading environmental, forest, and natural resource economists, the book represents a definitive reference volume for students of economics, environment, forestry and natural resource economics and management.

Author : Michael J. Spilsbury
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Forest management
ISBN : 9789793361901

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The Sustainability of Forest Management by Michael J. Spilsbury Pdf

Author : Gabriela Prostean,Juan José Lavios Villahoz,Laura Brancu,Gyula Bakacsi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030447113

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Innovation in Sustainable Management and Entrepreneurship by Gabriela Prostean,Juan José Lavios Villahoz,Laura Brancu,Gyula Bakacsi Pdf

This book analyses state-of-the-art techniques in business process management as drivers of advanced entrepreneurship, financial management, supply chain management, and sustainability management. The role of management in a rapidly-changing environment and the use of innovative methods and techniques to address and solve key management problems are also explored.

Author : Ruth Nussbaum,Markku Simula
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781136554056

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The Forest Certification Handbook by Ruth Nussbaum,Markku Simula Pdf

First published in 1995, The Forest Certification Handbook has become the landmark book concerning all aspects of forest and wood product certification from policy to business to in-the-field technical issues. Yet since first publication an enormous amount has happened in the field. This new second edition has been entirely rewritten to incorporate the changes over the past decade, and is a complete and up-to-date source of information on all aspects of developing, selecting and operating a forest certification programme that provides both market security and raises standards of forest management.

Author : İdris DURUSOY,Oytun Emre SAKICI,Gonca Ece ÖZCAN
Publisher : Akademisyen Kitabevi
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9786253994679

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Certifying Turkish Forests: A Path to Sustainable Forestry Practices by İdris DURUSOY,Oytun Emre SAKICI,Gonca Ece ÖZCAN Pdf

Author : Hermann Waibel,David Zilberman
Publisher : CABI
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845932848

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International Research on Natural Resource Management by Hermann Waibel,David Zilberman Pdf

Over the past two decades, significant investment has been made into agriculture-related natural resource management research in developing countries. This collection of case studies establishes a methodological foundation for impact assessments of NRMR through a discussion of research conducted by the CGIAR around the world.

Author : A.K. Kandya
Publisher : I K International Pvt Ltd
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789384588991

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Sustainable Forestry: Emerging Challenges by A.K. Kandya Pdf

Forests are critical for sustainable development, environment and also for livelihood. They provide a wealth of goods and services that are essential for people's lives, cash income and green economy. Maintaining and enhancing our planet's forest resources is essential if we are to succeed in the global efforts to alleviate poverty, address water scarcity and biodiversity loss, and mitigate climate change. Culturally and historically, the intrinsic value of forests, and the spiritual and sacred use of forests have great importance to local communities and our cultural identity. This book on Sustainable Forestry: Emerging Challenges, written by experienced academicians, scientists and other researchers shows the present ongoing initiatives in the country to address sustainable forestry and its management. An estimated 230 million people in India rely on forests for their livelihoods to some degree, including some 60 million indigenous people and other forest-dwelling communities. While more than two billion people - the developing world's population use fodder, biomass fuels, mainly firewood, to cook food and large number of non-timber forest products for their day-to-day needs.

Author : Fiona Haines
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351126052

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Crime and Regulation by Fiona Haines Pdf

This volume brings together key articles in the burgeoning field of regulation. The collection is interdisciplinary, in keeping with study of regulation itself, yet the book arranges and explores these articles to make the bewildering array of issues and concepts that comprise the study of regulation comprehensible to a criminological audience. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of criminology and criminal justice, as well as those concerned with reducing the crimes and harms of the powerful.

Author : International Institute for Environment and Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9781843690603

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Future Is Now 2, the - 9110iied by International Institute for Environment and Development Pdf

Author : Olaf Dilling,Martin Herberg,Gerd Winter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847314406

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Responsible Business by Olaf Dilling,Martin Herberg,Gerd Winter Pdf

With the globalisation of markets, the phenomenon of market failure has also been globalised. Against the backdrop of the territoriality of nation state jurisdictions and the slow progress of international law based on the principle of sovereignty this poses a serious challenge. However while the legal infrastructure of globalised markets has a firm basis in formal national and international law, the side effects of economic transactions on public goods such as the environment, human health and consumer interests often escape state-based regulation. Therefore, attention is drawn to the potential of self-regulation by transnational industry. While hypotheses abound which try to grasp this phenomenon in conceptual terms, both empirical and legal research is still underdeveloped. This volume helps to fill this gap, in two ways: firstly by reconstructing self-regulatory settings such as multinational corporations, transnational production networks and industry-NGO partnerships in terms of organisation, problem-solving and legitimation, and secondly, by linking their empirical findings to formal law by examining how legal concepts are reflected in self-regulation, how the law builds on self-regulatory solutions, and how it helps to establish favorable conditions for private governance.

Author : Karl S. Zimmerer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226983448

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Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation by Karl S. Zimmerer Pdf

Examining the geographical dimensions of environmental management and conservation activities implemented on landscapes worldwide, Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation creates a new framework and collects original case studies to explore recent developments in the interaction of humans and their environment. Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation makes four important arguments about the recent coupling of conservation and globalization that is reshaping the place of nature in human-environmental change. First, it has led to an unprecedented number of spatial arrangements whose environmental management goals and prescribed activities vary along a spectrum from strict biodiversity protection to sustainable utilization involving agriculture, food production, and extractive activities. Conservation and globalization are also leading, by necessity, to new scales of management in these activities that rely on environmental science, thus shifting the spatial patterning of humans and the environment. This interaction results, as well, in the unprecedented importance of boundaries and borders; transnational border issues pose both opportunities and threats to global conservation proposed by organizations and institutions that are themselves international. Lastly, Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation argues that the local level has been integral to globalization, while the regional level is often eclipsed at the peril of the successful implementation of conservation and management programs. Bridging the gap between geography and life science, Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation will appeal to a broad range of students of the environment, conservation planning; biodiversity management, and development and globalization studies.

Author : Nicola Borregaard
Publisher : IIED
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9781843695813

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Challenging Preconceptions about Trade in Sustainable Products by Nicola Borregaard Pdf