scholarly journals Independent forest stewardship auditing

1996 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-260
Author(s):  
Rod W. Beaumont
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
Forest Sustainability ◽  
Forest Stewardship ◽  
Independent Auditing ◽  
Independent Assessment ◽  
Canada Limited

Weldwood of Canada Limited considers independent auditing of forest stewardship and practices to be an essential component of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). The commitment to continuous improvement implied by SFM requires a management openness and transparency that is best served through the credibility of independent assessment. Key words: environmental auditing, forest sustainability

scholarly journals Effects of forest certification towards sustainable community forestry in Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pem N Kandel
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Community Forestry ◽  
Forest Certification ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Forest Stewardship Council ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
Forest Stewardship ◽  
Forest Users

In early 2005, 10,045 ha Community Forests (CFs) were certified in Bajhang and Dolakha districts of Nepal by using the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification scheme. After two years of forest certification, subsequent questions are being asked such as: What benefits have certification brought for the Forest Users Groups (FUGs)? What tangible differences are there in forest management system because of forest certification? and What lessons have been learnt from the certified forests? In an attempt to answer these questions, a study was carried out in April 2007 in Dolakha district where 11 (2,182 ha) community managed forests were certified in 2005. On the basis of field study from two certified forests (Vitteripakha and Suspa) of the district, this paper analyzes the effects of forest certification and its implications for enhancing Sustainable Community Forestry (SCF) in Nepal. Key words: Sustainable forest management, forest certification, community forestry Banko Janakari: A journal of forestry information for Nepal Vol.17(1) 2007 pp.11-16

scholarly journals Conducting an Evaluation Framework of Importance-Performance Analysis for Sustainable Forest Management in a Rural Area

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1357
Author(s):  
Hsing-Chih Chen ◽  
Tien-Pai Tseng ◽  
Kun Cheng ◽  
Supasit Sriarkarin ◽  
Wanyun Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Forest Stewardship Council ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
Forest Stewardship

We established an evaluation framework for sustainable forest management (SFM) development based on locals’ perspectives using the importance-performance analysis (IPA) method in a rural area of Taiwan. It identified the factors that affected local people’s participation in and awareness of SFM based on local demographics, development factors of SFM, and perceptions of SFM, through the logistic regression method (LRM). Both the levels of importance and performance (I-P) of the SFM indicators were rated by the local residents and the differences between importance–performance among indigenous and non-indigenous people were examined. The factors that affected differentiation of local people’s participation in the SFM program were: (1) forestry workers, (2) indigenous people, and (3) SFM development factors. The findings provide both theoretical constructs and policy implications for SFM mechanisms for the forest stewardship council (FSC) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) in a sustainable rural development.

scholarly journals Community forestry, Italian style: The Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme

1998 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter N. Duinker ◽  
Reino E. Pulkki
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Community Forestry ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Forest Stewardship Council ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Wood Processing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forest Stewardship

In June 1997, we visited the Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme (MCF), a community forest in the Alps of northern Italy. We have prepared this article to help broaden the perspectives of Forestry Chronicle readers on community forests and what they mean in various parts of the world. We first describe the area and its forests, and then give a brief history of the MCF. Then we review the forest-management strategies used in this Norway spruce forest, and summarize the logging and wood-processing activities of the enterprise. We continue with a comparison of this community forest with three community forests in Canada, concluding that generalization on what makes a community forest successful is dangerous — each situation is unique. Finally, given that the MCF recently won permission to use the eco-label of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), we discuss our perceptions of how the MCF operation does and does not meet the FSC's Principles and Criteria of Forest Stewardship. Despite several shortcomings, we believe that the MCF is in most respects a sound example of sustainable forest management.

scholarly journals Climate change impacts and adaptation in Canada: Is the forest sector prepared?

2005 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 653-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg A McKinnon ◽  
Shelley L Webber
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Climate Change Vulnerability

Key words: forests, climate change, vulnerability, adaptation, sustainable forest management

Evaluating the transition to sustainable forest management in Ontario’s Crown Forest Sustainability Act and forest management planning manuals from 1994 to 2009

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 436-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Robson ◽  
Troy Davis
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Forest Sustainability ◽  
Learning And Change ◽  
Crown Forest ◽  
Range Of Values

The purpose of the paper is to analyse the extent of policy change and learning in the 20 years following the implementation of Ontario’s forest sustainability legislation. Extent of policy learning and change towards sustainable forest management are measured using a combination of content, co-occurrence, and textual analysis of the previous Crown Timber Act and the new Crown Forest Sustainability Act, as well as the latter’s 1996 and 2009 forest planning manuals. There were four key findings. First, policy change towards sustainable forest management has been limited. Second, although there was an increased number of values mentioned in new legislation and planning manuals, the frequency of timber values remained dominant. Third, although integration occurred among a greater range of values, integration with timber values continued to dominate. Fourth, with respect to policy learning, the achievement of sustainable forest management is now explicit and judged based on evidence regarding the inclusion of a range of values beyond timber. The paper concludes that the transition to the more integrative and responsive policies of sustainable forest management remains a work in progress.

scholarly journals Elements of sustainable forest management

1995 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Lust
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Ecological Stability ◽  
Forest Sustainability ◽  
Forest Use ◽  
Forest Stability ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Forest Engineering

Elements  of the modern day vision on sustainable forest management are discussed. Some  aspects of the concept are analysed, focusing on the natural definition in  comparison with the ecosystem definition. The significance of ecological  stability is emphasized. It is pointed out that perhaps the most important  aspect of forest stability and sustainability is the ability to retain soil  fertility. Attention is paid to the importance of species composition, the  role of organic matter, the impact of forest use and the problems of forest  engineering.     In order to reach sustainable forest management, a number of strategies can  be applied, based either on the market or the state. There is a need for  measurable criteria and indicators for the evaluation of sustainability.  Therefore new programmes of scientific sampling or even basic research are  still needed.     Forest sustainability provides still a dramatic lot of questions and  efforts, a.o. on the potentiality of sustainable forestry.

scholarly journals The Terms Foresters and Planners in the United States Use to Infer Sustainability in Forest Management Plans: A Survey Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Rocio Gutierrez Garzon ◽  
Pete Bettinger ◽  
Jacek Siry ◽  
Bin Mei ◽  
Jesse Abrams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Forest Sustainability ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Sample Technique ◽  
Forest Plans

Sustainable forest management is important for advancing sustainable societal development. Effective communication plays a major role in how goals and objectives are achieved. This study aims to assess how sustainability is considered by people who develop forest management plans (or forest plans in short). We employed the snowball sample technique to locate the study’s respondents. In addition, an open-ended questionnaire and a mix method data collection (phone and email) and analysis (qualitative and quantitative) were found to be adequate methods to survey forest planners who have been involved in the development, implementation, evaluation, and/or revision of forest plans in the United States. Our approach helped us to understand their perceptions of and means of incorporating sustainability concerns in forest plans. A total of 55 surveys were completed by forest planners physically located in 26 of the 50 states in the country. Results suggested that planners generally placed environmental sustainability concerns over social and economic sustainability concerns. A variety of key terms were central to forest planners’ attempts to communicate sustainability, from which most were associated with philosophical and temporal principles that would then be associated with concrete actions and the human dimension. Nevertheless, respondents also acknowledged difficulties and misunderstandings in describing how forest sustainability should be demonstrated within a forest plan. Topics such as restoration, carbon sequestration, and resilience were infrequently associated with sustainability and sustainable forest management. Finally, we found that the respondents were divided on whether the language used in forest plans to demonstrate sustainability could be improved.

scholarly journals Assessment and Monitoring Protocols to Guarantee the Maintenance of Biodiversity in Certified Forests: A Case Study for FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Forests in Southwestern Spain

Forests ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 705
Author(s):  
Antonio Sánchez-Almendro ◽  
Pablo Hidalgo ◽  
Rosario Galán ◽  
José Carrasco ◽  
Javier López-Tirado
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Certification ◽  
Forest Stewardship Council ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Assessment And Monitoring ◽  
High Conservation ◽  
Conservation Values ◽  
Forest Stewardship ◽  
Monitoring Protocols

(1) Biodiversity, sustainable development and nature conservation are fundamental issues nowadays. All companies, administrations, governments and international organisations take these issues into consideration. Sustainable forest management always requires a compromise between profitability and conservation and in this fragile equilibrium, forest certification plays a key scheme. This sustainable management is of great importance in the European Union (EU), with the Forest Stewardship Council playing a fundamental role in forest certification. This certification forms the basis of the ecosystem conservation and improvement strategy in Ence, Energía y Celulosa, the leading company dedicated to the production of eucalyptus in Spain; (2) A three-phase protocol (identification of High Conservation Values, assessment of conservation areas and monitoring program), has been developed, providing clear, objective criteria, particularly concerning FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Principle 9, the primary goal being the development and application of these objective criteria in the Ence conservation areas in the province of Huelva (Spain). One of the main criteria for habitat classification was correspondence with the habitats listed in Annex I of the Habitats Directive. The compatibility between forest exploitation management and conservation proposed by the Natura 2000 network encouraged us to use this methodology for the identification, classification and assessment of High Conservation Values considered in FSC forest certification: Principle 9; (3) The study encompasses 183 forest management units covering 52,022 ha, with a total of 11,847.45 ha being identified as High Conservation Value Areas. Through the identification and assessment of the conservation areas, the described methodology played a crucial role in demonstrating the positive impact of Ence’s certified forest management on the conservation of biological diversity; (4) This study demonstrates that an objective and reliable identification, assessment and monitoring methodology, with a proven high degree of accuracy in the location and characterisation of interesting and representative habitats in the region, can be implemented. Due to its objectivity, this strategy can be easily applied to other European sustainable forest management sites and possibly to other countries outside the EU.

scholarly journals AKTUALISASI PRINSIP HUKUM PELESTARIAN FUNGSI LINGKUNGAN HIDUP DALAM KEBIJAKAN PERUBAHAN PERUNTUKAN, FUNGSI, DAN PENGGUNAAN KAWASAN HUTAN

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iskandar Iskandar
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Conservation Law ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Forest Damage ◽  
Almost All

 This article are intended to describe the thirteen principles of environment conservation law in sustainable forest management as an instrument of prevention of forest damage. In the realization, almost all of the principles are not applied or not be the basis of consideration, either by the Ministry of Forestry, relevant sector ministries, and local governments in establishing the concervation policies. This makes the implementation of policies to use, changes in the function, and use (permission to borrow to use) the forest resist of violations and irregularities. Therefore, it needs to be developed (ius constituendum perspective) the principle of environmental law as a general principles, which has the nature of force and lead to the development of leadership character of the decision makers. Key words: Actualization, Principles of Law, Conservation, Environment Functions, Forest

scholarly journals Evaluation of ecosystem services from urban forests in the City of Prague / Ocenění ekosystémových služeb městských lesů Hlavního města Prahy

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
Miroslav Hájek ◽  
Jan Lípa
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Forest Stewardship Council ◽  
Annual Reporting ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Nursery Management ◽  
Forest Stewardship ◽  
The City

Abstract Municipal forests primarily provide ecosystem services which are in demand by residents. If they are to meet the demands of Prague’s citizens, managers need good quality information and appropriate financial resources. One important piece of data is a valuation of all ecosystem services. The aim of this paper is to assess the current level of organisation and funding of forest management, estimate the value of forest functions and contribute to improvements in annual reporting by the Forests of the City of Prague. The results of the valuation could potentially be used for the improvement of decision making processes. The organisational structure (Centre of Forests, Watercourses and Reservoirs, Ornamental Nursery Management and Environmental Education) has been effective in delivering sustainable forest management in the City. In addition, forest management of the City of Prague has been independently certified under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) International Standard since May 2007.

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