Forest Certification: Roots, Issues, Challenges, and Benefits

by Kristiina A. Vogt, John C. Gordon, Bruce C. Larson, et al.

Forest certification has been widely accepted as a tool that would encourage industrial and non-industrial management of resources in an environmentally acceptable, socially beneficial and economically viable manner. Much has been written on certification yet five issues have been missing, which this book addresses: an analysis of the scientific basis for the certification standards; a formal and mechanistic incorporation of social and natural system...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849315859
• ISBN13: 9780849315855
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 10.5"