By Ruth Nussbaum, Markku Simula
First released in 1995, The wooded area Certification instruction manual has turn into the landmark booklet relating all facets of woodland and wooden product certification from coverage to company to in-the-field technical concerns. but because first book a massive quantity has occurred within the box. This new moment variation has been solely rewritten to include the alterations over the last decade, and is an entire and up to date resource of knowledge on all elements of constructing, identifying and working a wooded area certification programme that offers either industry safeguard and increases criteria of woodland administration.
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4 Typical requirements for forestry standards that define responsible or sustainable forest management There is no single agreed set of detailed requirements for forest management that are universally accepted as defining responsible or sustainable forest management. There is, nevertheless, broad agreement at a general level that requirements need to address legal, technical, environmental and social issues. However, within each of these broad areas, there is less agreement about exactly what needs to be addressed.
This means that it is not possible to write a single global standard that is detailed and precise, as well as applicable to all forests. Even at a national level, the range of forest types in many countries is sufficiently great to make the development of a single standard very challenging. There are a number of ways of dealing with this: • The scope of the standard should be restricted to a single forest type; this allows for a specific and detailed standard that is clear for those implementing the standard and easy to audit for the certification body.
The other specifies that the certifier should publicize the forthcoming certification on its website and consult with anyone who contacts them. Only the former approach will ensure input from local indigenous people without access to a computer. While it is clear that a forest certification scheme based on a standard that is universally thought to be inadequate is unlikely to be useful, and similarly a scheme utilizing a certification process that is unreliable and prone to error is pointless, there is, nevertheless, a wide spectrum of thought about what constitutes an ‘acceptable’ scheme.