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Author(s): Sophie Higman, James Mayers, Stephen Bass, Neil Judd
ISBN(s): 9781844071180, 1844071189
Edition: 2nd
File Details: PDF, 3.23 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1844071189 
ISBN 13: 9781844071180
Author: Sophie Higman, James Mayers, Stephen Bass, Neil Judd

The Sustainable Forestry Handbook is widely considered to be the essential aid to understanding and implementing sustainable forest management. Providing a clear and concise guide to the practicalities of implementing international standards for sustainable forest management, this fully updated second edition covers new Forest Stewardship Council requirements, High Conservation Value Forests, clearer requirements on pesticides and developments in policy and forest governance. Aimed at forest managers, and employing extensive cross referencing and easy-to-understand illustrations, this highly practical handbook explains in clear terms what the standards require forest managers to do and how they might go about implementing them.

The Sustainable Forestry Handbook Earthscan Forestry Library 2nd Table of contents:

Part 1: Introduction to Sustainable Forest Management

  1. What is Sustainable Forest Management?

    • Definition and elements of SFM

  2. Why Practise Sustainable Forest Management?

    • Forest governance: importance and challenges

    • Environmental and social risk reduction

    • Forestry’s role in development and poverty reduction

    • The business case for SFM: market pressure, corporate responsibility

    • Future challenges for forestry

  3. Standards for Sustainable Forest Management

    • What are SFM standards?

    • Who develops them and how?

    • Types: process and performance standards

    • International and national initiatives (e.g., ITTO, FSC, PEOLG)

Part 2: The Requirements of SFM

  1. Legal and Policy Framework

    • Compliance, tenure, and organizational commitments

  2. Sustained and Optimal Production of Forest Products

    • Management planning, yield, monitoring, protection, economic viability

  3. Protecting the Environment

    • Impact assessments, biodiversity conservation, ecological sustainability, chemical use, waste management

  4. Wellbeing of People

    • Consultation, social impact, rights recognition, employee relations, development contributions

  5. Plantations

    • Planning, species selection, soil management, pest/disease control, conservation/restoration

  6. Performance Requirements

    • Key performance indicators

Part 3: Using an Environmental Management System (EMS)

  1. SFM Policy

  • Developing commitment, writing policy statements

  1. Planning

  • Impact assessments, setting objectives and targets, management programs

  1. Implementation

  • Training, operational control

  1. Checking

  • Internal audits, corrective actions

  1. Management Review

  • Review process requirements

Part 4: Meeting the Requirements

  1. Planning

  • Environmental and social impact assessments

  • Stakeholder communication

  • Management plan development

  • Resource surveys and sustained yield calculations

  • Conservation strategies and high conservation value forests

  1. Implementation in the Forest

  • Forest road building, harvesting, silviculture, chemical/pest management, training

  1. Monitoring

  • Operational and strategic monitoring

Part 5: Tackling Social Issues

  1. Importance of Social Issues

  • Rights, business ethics, legal issues, external pressures, sustainable development

  1. Working with Stakeholders

  • Identification, interests, contributions, tools, partnerships

  1. Conditions of Employment

  • Employment standards and requirements

  1. Monitoring Social Impacts

  • Social issues to monitor and approaches

  1. Dealing with Perceptions and Expectations

Part 6: Forest Management Certification

  1. Why Achieve Certification?

  2. Choosing a Certification Scheme

  • Customer demand, markets, investors, management goals, government pressure

  1. The Certification Process

  • Application, pre-assessment, gap closing, stakeholder consultation, main assessment, certification, surveillance

  1. Small and Low Intensity Managed Forests

  2. Group Certification

  • Roles and practices

  1. Phased Approaches to Certification

  2. Chain of Custody

  • Percentage-based claims

  1. Other Certification Initiatives

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