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forest certification in developing and transitioning countries
generating and testing hypotheses concerning certification’s effects in developing and
transitioning societies. Our own effort to identify themes and make sense of the data
is set out in the conclusion.
Box 1
Case study template
Introduction
Background Factors
1) Ownership and Tenure
2) Markets
The Emergence of Forest Certification
1) Initial Support
2) Institutional Design
3) Standards
4) Forestry Problems
5) Roadblocks and Challenges
The Reaction to Certification
1) Forest Policy Community/Stakeholders
2) Forest Owners
3) Current Status of Forestland Certification
4) Current Status of the Certified Marketplace
Effects of Certification
1) Power
2) Social
3) Economic
4) Environmental
Conclusion
Countries were selected in a region as follows. Each editor was assigned to a specific
region and was responsible for assessing candidates for possible inclusion. Criteria
used in selecting countries into the project were:
(a) total forest area (relative to other countries and as a percentage of
total land area of the individual country);
(b) level of forest certification activity (measured in hectares certified,
number of chain-of-custody certificates, establishment of FSC
national working groups, development of competing forest
certification system); and
(c) identification and availability of a researcher from the case-study
country.
yale school of forestry & environmental studies