Publication: The problematic social dimension of sustainable development: the case of the Forest Stewardship Council
The problematic social dimension of sustainable development: the case of the Forest Stewardship Council
| dc.contributor.author | Boström, M. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-23T18:56:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-23T18:56:57Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://open.fsc.org/handle/resource/857 | |
| dc.title | The problematic social dimension of sustainable development: the case of the Forest Stewardship Council | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Public | |
| dcterms.accessRights | Limited access | |
| dcterms.issued | 2012 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.type | Journal Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| fsc.evidenceCategory | FSC impact-related | |
| fsc.focus.sustainDimension | Social | |
| fsc.issue.social | Local communities | |
| fsc.issue.social | Indigenous peoples | |
| fsc.issue.social | Workers | |
| fsc.subject | Forests | |
| fsc.subject | Certification | |
| fsc.topic.social | Local communities | |
| fsc.topic.social | Indigenous peoples | |
| fsc.topic.social | Rights | |
| fsc.topic.social | Forest workers | |
| is.availability.fullText | Full text available | |
| is.contributor.member | Forest Stewardship Council | |
| is.coverage.geographicLevel | Global | |
| is.evaluation.collection | Case studies | |
| is.evaluation.counterfacts | No | |
| is.evaluation.notes | The article aims to analyze if/how social issues are integrated in sustainable development projects successfully. Therefore it is examined at first the benefits and barriers that occur by implementing those projects. And secondly it tries to explain these challenges by analyzing in a case study the example of the FSC. On the basis of four criteria serving as indicators for social development, the FSC certification is evaluated in regard to social sustainability in its work. | |
| is.evaluation.quotes | Although most selected interviewees could see a number of social benefits/opportunities associated with FSC certification, the difficulties in meeting social goals appear to predominate. | |
| is.evaluation.quotes | Most of these ‘failures'should not be seen as a lack of real willingness within theFSC to fulfil its mission. Rather, several issues are essentially incredibly difficult for any non-state transnational organisation such as the FSC to tackle. The present article has looked at eight intriguing factors in an effort to explain these challenges. | |
| is.evaluation.quotes | In order to achieve its objectives, a certification systemsuch as the FSC has to achieve significant market impact,and hence enter into the mainstream market and invitepowerful economic actors along the product chain. Too rigoroussocial and environmental criteria would entail huge costs, thus preventing a mainstream, fast-growth strategy. Moreover, a market-based approach can do very little by way of standardisation to prescribe work for poverty reduction, basic capacity building (such as reducing illiteracy) or equitable wealth distribution, all of which are topics that may be necessary prerequisites for sustainability, as was argued in the previous subsection. | |
| is.evaluation.quotes | In general, the labelling and certification strategycannot avoid a general compromise between market pragmatist/expansionist goals, on the one hand, and environmentaland social stringency goals, on the other | |
| is.evaluation.quotes | One outcome of the FSC social strategy (FSC 2003) was the FSC's Small and Low Intensity Management Forest (SLIMF) standards, which were designed to simplify and reduce the cost for small-scale and low-intensity landowners to certify their forests. | |
| is.evidenceSubType | qualitative | |
| is.evidenceType | Empirical study | |
| is.extent.number | 1 | |
| is.extent.volume | 19 | |
| is.focus.sectors | Agriculture | |
| is.focus.sectors | Forestry | |
| is.focus.sustainDimension | Social | |
| is.focus.systemElement | MandE outcomes and impacts | |
| is.focus.systemElement | MandE performance monitoring | |
| is.identifier.code | Impacts | |
| is.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2011.582891 | |
| is.identifier.fscdoi | http://dx.doi.org/10.34800/fsc-international405 | |
| is.identifier.schemeName | Forest Stewardship Council | |
| is.identifier.schemeType | Voluntary Sustainability Standards | |
| is.item.reviewStatus | Peer reviewed | |
| is.journalName | International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology |