By Constance McDermott
This e-book offers a uniquely targeted and systematic comparability of environmental wooded area guidelines and enforcement in twenty nations around the globe, masking constructed, transition and constructing economies. The aim is to reinforce worldwide coverage studying and advertise well-informed and precisely-tuned coverage solutions.Market globalization and the globalization of environmental issues have spurred call for for better overseas responsibility for wooded area stewardship. In reaction, a number multilateral governmental and non-governmental projects have emerged to redefine the foundations of worldwide alternate, and insist verification of the legality and/or sustainability of woodland items originating from inside of and out of doors nationwide boundaries.At an identical time there's a loss of transparency and shared knowing concerning the environmental wooded area rules that exist already in the world's top woodland generating and eating nations. the result's that many stakeholders have constructed perceptions a couple of country's regulatory surroundings that aren't in step with what's truly occurring.
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ES_GEFP_1-3 22 5/3/10 19:47 Page 22 SETTING THE SCENE Non-state regulatory approaches: Forest certification Any comparison of global forest policy in the current era would be incomplete without addressing forest certification. Hence our empirical chapters each include a section on the development of forest certification within the case study countries. Forest certification first emerged in the 1990s as an innovative non-state market driven policy instrument with which to promote sustainable forestry.
However, it is also highly bureaucratic and fosters adversarial relations between governmental and industry officials that have led to ‘bomb proofing’ at the expense of long range planning (United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment, 1992, p65). Likewise ‘command and control’ has been blamed for reducing industry innovations that could lead to increased environmental protection (Cashore and Vertinsky, 2000), and for burdening industry with increased costs (Northwest Forest Resources Council, Association of O&C Counties, 1991; Lippke and Oliver, 1993; Evergreen, 1994; Flick, 1994; Flick et al, 1995).
Gucinski (2000) ‘Function, effects, and management of forest roads’, Forest Ecology and Management, 133, 3, pp249–262 Mayers, James and Stephen Bass (1999) ‘Policy that works for forests and people: Overview report’, Policy that works for forests and people report series, Vol. 7, London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IISD) McDermott, Constance L. (2003) ‘Personal trust and trust in abstract systems: A study of Forest Stewardship Council-accredited certification in British Columbia’, PhD, Vancouver: Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia McDermott, Constance and Benjamin Cashore (2007) ‘A global comparison of forest practice policies using Tasmania as a constant case’, New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Forest Policy and Governance, Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry McDermott, Constance L.