Impact of forest certification: from the perspective of forest concessionaires' staffs
Concerned by the increased in tropical deforestation, a number of efforts to combat deforestation and forest degradation due to the bad management of forest practices were raised by several parties. As a result, forest certification was introduced as a tool to improve forest management practices...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/21051/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/21051/1/ID%2021051.pdf |
| Summary: | Concerned by the increased in tropical deforestation, a number of efforts to combat
deforestation and forest degradation due to the bad management of forest practices were
raised by several parties. As a result, forest certification was introduced as a tool to improve
forest management practices which among the rationales is to assure that the forest
management is compliance with social, economic and environmental sustainability
principles. This paper analyses the impact of the forest certification towards social, economy
and environment from the view of three forest concessionaire companies’ staffs. Since the
introduction of forest certification to these companies, a lot of changes have been made to
ensure the companies operation is compliance with the principle and criteria of the forest
certification. Assessing it, from the staffs’ view are essential because they involved in every
aspects of forest management. Results reveal that certification had lead to more positive
impacts such as benefited the staffs’ social welfare and help in improving the sustainability of
forest. However, the implementation of the program has been affecting these companies
economically due to the additional cost of getting certified and annual inspection. On this
other hand, this research exposes the impacts of forest certification and hopefully, it has
provided useful information for the stakeholders regarding the issues on forest certification |
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