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FSC forest management certification in the Americas
- Source :
- International Forestry Review. 20:31-42
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Commonwealth Forestry Association, 2018.
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Abstract
- SUMMARY The forest sector directly and indirectly serves several industries and economic activities. In addition to this, forests also provide various environmental services at local and global scales. The demand and conservation of these services has been increasing more strongly in recent decades. A mechanism created to highlight “good forest management” and ensuring the sustainability of forests, is forest certification. The American continent has vast forest areas and a strong forest sector, with big consumers and producers, especially Brazil, Canada and the United States. However less than 5% of this area is certified. Thus, this study aimed to review how the different countries of the Americas carried out the process of forest certification by the FSC system and to discuss how external factors would have influenced these processes. As a result, we found that the establishment of certification was not homogenous among the American countries. It has grown faster in countries with large activities in t...
- Subjects :
- 040101 forestry
Ecology
business.industry
Process (engineering)
Geography, Planning and Development
Forest management
Environmental resource management
0211 other engineering and technologies
021107 urban & regional planning
Forestry
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
02 engineering and technology
Certification
Ecosystem services
Certified wood
Sustainability
0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
Business
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14655489
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Forestry Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........eb8620e85b356cafafdee1feef5896a9