By Sophie Higman, James Mayers, Stephen Bass, Neil Judd, Ruth Nussbaum
The Sustainable Forestry guide is broadly thought of to be the basic reduction to knowing and enforcing sustainable wooded area administration. supplying a transparent and concise advisor to the practicalities of enforcing foreign criteria for sustainable woodland administration, this absolutely up to date moment version covers new woodland Stewardship Council necessities, excessive Conservation price Forests, clearer necessities on insecticides and advancements in coverage and wooded area governance. geared toward woodland managers, and utilising vast move referencing and easy-to-understand illustrations, this hugely functional guide explains in transparent phrases what the factors require woodland managers to do and the way they could move approximately imposing them.
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Based on E Lammerts and E Blom, Hierarchical Framework for the Forulation of Sustainable Forest Management Standards. 2 ISO and ISEAL Alliance standard-setting guides ISO is the International Organization for Standardization, based in Switzerland. In addition to its management system standards such as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, ISO has produced a number of guides to setting standards and running certification schemes. ISO Guide 59: Code of Good Practice for Standardization is a widely accepted minimum requirement for developing standards in any sector.
Land tenure and use rights may be demonstrated by: • ownership documents; • concession agreement; • cutting licence; • proof of customary rights. 2 Forest management operations, especially timber harvesting, can have a detrimental effect on other users of the forest, especially indigenous and local communities, who often rely on the forest resource for subsistence, or other goods and services. If other people have legal or customary rights to the forest resource, their free and informed consent to the forest operations must be obtained before operations begin.
1 Management Planning BACKGROUND Sustainable forest management involves the achievement of multiple management objectives. These objectives and means of achieving them should be defined in a forest management plan or equivalent documents. 1 Management planning is the foundation of a well-managed forest. It lays out what is to be done, where, when, why and by whom. The management plan should be authorized by senior management (eg the managing director) of the forest organization. Management plans should be working documents and should be available to and used by everyone who has a decision-making role.