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Forest Certification in Collectively Owned Forest Areas and Sustainable Forest Management: A Case of Cooperative-Based Forest Certification in China

dc.contributor.authorHe, M.
dc.contributor.authorWu, Z.
dc.contributor.authorLi, W.
dc.contributor.authorZeng, Y.
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-23T18:55:49Z
dc.date.available2022-01-23T18:55:49Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://open.fsc.org/handle/resource/659
dc.languageen
dc.rightsPaywalled content
dc.titleForest Certification in Collectively Owned Forest Areas and Sustainable Forest Management: A Case of Cooperative-Based Forest Certification in Chinaen
dcterms.abstractThis paper presents a successful case of forest certification of organized small forestland holders in China and examines problems and challenges encountered. The Forest Stewardship Council certification of forestland of Longquan Nengfu Professional Cooperative for Forestation is analyzed to illustrate the feasibility of forest certification in the form of cooperatives in the collectively owned forest areas in southern China. The main challenges identified include centralized forestland ownership and decentralized forest tenure, identification of plantation or natural forest, monitoring of potential effects of forest management, and identification and conservation of high conservation value forests. It is demonstrated that long-term stable forestland tenure, popularization of knowledge of forest certification, and involvement of local government agencies in forest certification are important for sustainable forest management in the cooperative-based forest certification.en
dcterms.issued2015
dcterms.typeJournal Article
dspace.entity.typePublication
fsc.evidenceCategoryFSC effect-related studies
fsc.focus.forestTypeNatural Forest
fsc.focus.forestTypePlantation
fsc.focus.forestZone(not yet curated)
fsc.focus.sustainDimension1. Economic
fsc.focus.sustainDimension3. Social
fsc.focus.tenureManagement(not yet curated)
fsc.focus.tenureOwnershipSmallholder
fsc.issue.environmental(not yet curated)
fsc.topic.environmental(not yet curated)
fscdoc.hashidden.adminyes
fscdoc.hashidden.useryes
is.coverage.countryChina
is.coverage.regionAsia
is.evaluation.collectionCase studies
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is.extent.number2
is.extent.pages245-254
is.extent.volume14
is.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-015-9285-y
is.identifier.fscdoihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34800/fsc-international324
is.journalNameSmall-scale Forestry
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