Forest Certification in Sustainable Development: Healing the Landscape

by Chris Maser, Walter Smith

From recycled products to organic food, environmentally friendly is moving into the mainstream, including the forest industry. This text highlights the history, importance and rewards of forest certification. It discusses the issues involved in mainstream forestry, and what can be done to create sustainable forestry. The authors provide, step-by-step, the certification process as practised by the Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood programme.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Chris Maser is an independent author as well as an international lecturer, facilitator, and consultant in resolving environmental conflicts, vision statements, sustainable community development, as well as forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices.