ABSTRACT

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.

part One|26 pages

Introduction to International Standards for Forest Management

part Two|67 pages

What Do the Standards Require?

chapter 4|4 pages

The Legal and Policy Framework

chapter 6|15 pages

Protecting the Environment

chapter 7|11 pages

The Wellbeing of People

chapter 8|10 pages

Plantations

chapter 9|7 pages

Performance Requirements

part Three|17 pages

Using an Environmental Management System

chapter 10|4 pages

Sustainable Forest Management Policy

chapter 11|2 pages

Planning

chapter 12|3 pages

Implementation

chapter 13|2 pages

Checking

chapter 14|2 pages

Management Review

part Four|74 pages

Meeting the Requirements

chapter 15|44 pages

Planning

chapter 16|21 pages

Implementation in the Forest

chapter 17|6 pages

Monitoring

part Five|35 pages

Tackling Social Issues

chapter 18|5 pages

Why Social Issues are Important

chapter 19|17 pages

Working with Stakeholders

chapter 20|3 pages

Conditions of Employment

chapter 21|4 pages

Monitoring Social Impacts

part Six|25 pages

Forest Management Certification

chapter 23|1 pages

Why Achieve Certification?

chapter 24|5 pages

Choosing a Certification Scheme

chapter 25|4 pages

The Certification Process

chapter 26|3 pages

Small and Low Intensity Managed Forests

chapter 27|3 pages

Group Certification 1

chapter 28|2 pages

Phased Approaches to Certification

chapter 29|2 pages

Chain of Custody

chapter 30|1 pages

Other Certification-related Initiatives