The often-claimed environmental and social benefits of forest certification remain to be empirically evaluated. Despite numerous publications on the impacts of

Ensuring Sustainability in Forestry: certification of forests details the concepts and approaches required to meet the desired international standards of forest

Management decisions on appropriate practices and policies regarding tropical forests often need to be made in spite of innumerable uncertainties and complexiti

Forest certification has been widely accepted as a tool that would encourage industrial and non-industrial management of resources in an environmentally accepta