Forest certification : roots, issues, challenges, and benefits /: roots, issues, challenges, and benefits. (©2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kristiina A. Vogt [and others].
• Other Names: Vogt, Kristiina A
• Contents: ISSUES IN FOREST CERTIFICATION; Improvements Crucial to Successful Implementation of Forest Certification; Why Certification is Relevant; ROOTS OF FOREST CERTIFICATION: ITS DEVELOPMENTAL HISTORY, TYPES OF APPROACHES, AND STATISTICS; Origins of the Concept of Forest Certification; Other Relevant Initiatives in Forest Certification; The Certification of Environmental Claims in Industrialized Countries; Analysis of Forest Certification Approaches; Current Statistics and Characterization of Certified Forests by Ownership Type and Land Area; DEFINITIONS AND CURRENT VALUES INTEGRATED INTO CERTIFICATION PROTOCOLS; Defining Terminology; Value-Laden Issues of Certification; CASE STUDY AND EVALUATION OF THE DOMINANT CERTIFICATION PROTOCOLS; Relevance of Toumey Forest to Assess Certification Protocols; Analysis of the Elements Comprising the Dominant Certification Protocols as structured in January 1998; Case Study: Student Evaluation of Protocols at Yale's Toumey Forest; INDICATORS RELEVANT FOR INCLUSION IN ASSESSMENTS: TYPES, MINIMUM NUMBER, AND THOSE DERIVED FROM NON-HUMAN VALUES; Indicators Selection Criteria; Non-Value-Based Parameters Relevant for Incorporation into Certification; Social Legacies Constraining Natural Resource Uses; DIRECT AND INDIRECT IMPACTS OF NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON THE ECOSYSTEM; Introduction; Forest Management Activities Leading to Regeneration; Forest Management Activities Not Associated with Regeneration; Infrastructure Related to Forest Management Activities; Summary; SYNTHESIS DISCUSSION OF ISSUES RELEVANT TO CERTIFICATION; Necessity of Assessing the Landscape's Matrix Within Which a Management Unit is Embedded; Social and Natural Science Links; Public Participation in Certification; Importance and Participation of Non-Industrial Private Forests; Certification: Constraints and Opportunities for Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners; Estimating Price Premiums Necessary to Pay for Forest Certification; Chain of Custody as an Impediment to Certification; Challenges and Opportunities for Tropical Timber Certification: Mexico's Experience; CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF CERTIFICATION; Summary Discussion of the Advantages and Challenges of Certification; Reason for Forestland Owners Not To Become Certified; The Past and Future Goals of Certification; ; ; ;
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Copyright Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (374 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 634.9202/18; Forest management -- Standards; Forest products -- Certification; Sustainable forestry; Forêts -- Gestion -- Normes; Produits forestiers -- Certification; Foresterie durable; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Forestry; Forest management -- Standards; Forest products -- Certification; Sustainable forestry; Forstprodukt; Forstwirtschaft; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Zertifizierung; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420049459; 1420049453; 1281244104; 9781281244109
• Related ISBNs: 0849315859; 9780849315855
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-364).; Note: Print version record.
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