Title: Forest Certification Schemes in Japan, Indonesia, and Malaysia: Background and Reality
Abstract: Forest certification is a market-driven, institutional system that promotes environmentally conscious, socially acceptable, and economically sustainable forestry management practices through third-party evaluation and certification. Despite the use of the word “institutional,” which gives the connotation of it being a government service, it is generally a private initiative. As well, the certifiers and the companies they evaluate both actively participate in the scheme. Forest management entities, once granted certification, make use of it through advertising or by stamping or labeling their logs and other wood products with a logo that communicates the organization’s achievement. When consumers choose to purchase their products, they are, in effect, supporting good forest management. Forest certification is considered a viable means for differentiating from wood illegally logged or produced through unsustainable forestry management practices.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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