Sentence examples similar to certification of forests from inspiring English sources

These preferences indicate potential demand for a certification of forest watershed services designed to provide such information to end users.

In this paper, we discuss the development of certification of forest ecosystem services (FES) from the perspective of those implementing it at the local level.

The World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development, an independent international body assembled after the 1992 earth summit in Rio, has recommended a raft of multilateral measures to conserve forests, from the establishment of a "forest security council" to certification of wood products derived legally from "sustainable" forests.

Without the council's certification of Tasmania's forest management practices, foreign markets spooked by the bad old days could stay out of reach.

Two communities in Tanzania obtained the first Forest Stewardship Council certification for African forests in April.

For the forest industry, this shift was supported by the emergence of forest certification in the late 1990s.

The results indicated that participants' understanding of forest certification was extremely low, despite major efforts in China to raise awareness of the issue.

The article analyzes the construction of trust in the international system of forest certification promoted by transnational non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

More than 95% of the Finnish forests are certified by the Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) [6], whereas the area of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC -certified FSC -certified a foreston of the PEFC-certisied fonlyts in Finland.

New Zealand is committed to developing sustainable forest management practices as evidenced through Government involvement in international forestry agreements such as the Montreal Process, and the forestry sector's adoption of forest certification mechanisms.

In many situations, the application of alternative silviculture would only be economically viable through measures such as conservation payments (Cubbage et al. 2007), monetary incentives as part of forest certification efforts (Nasi et al. 2011), or direct payments for ecosystem services (Wunder 2006), such as water supply and regulation (Nahuelhual et al. 2007).