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Adapting forest certification to climate change
Author(s) -
Klenk Nicole L.,
Larson Brendon M. H.,
McDermott Constance L.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: climate change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.678
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1757-7799
pISSN - 1757-7780
DOI - 10.1002/wcc.329
Subject(s) - climate change , certified wood , environmental resource management , forest management , sustainable forest management , vulnerability (computing) , certification , corporate governance , context (archaeology) , stewardship (theology) , climate change mitigation , business , adaptation (eye) , adaptive management , ecoforestry , environmental planning , forest ecology , intact forest landscape , geography , political science , ecology , environmental science , forestry , ecosystem , law , optics , computer security , archaeology , computer science , biology , physics , finance , politics
In the context of climate change, the forest sector must consider the extent to which sustainable forest management enables or constrains climate change adaptation and mitigation; it may be that existing values and principles, policies and decision‐making processes, and institutions are no longer appropriate. Forest certification has emerged as an important arena for setting international and regional standards for forest management, but it is unclear to what extent it supports or helps develop adaptive capacity for climate change in the forest sector. This paper, therefore, combines a review of the literature on forests and climate adaptation with a systematic assessment of the Forest Stewardship Council Criteria and Indicators (in detail) and other forest and carbon certification schemes (in brief) to shed light on the role of certification standards in mediating forest and climate adaptation strategies. WIREs Clim Change 2015, 6:189–201. doi: 10.1002/wcc.329 This article is categorized under: Climate, Ecology, and Conservation > Conservation Strategies Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Institutions for Adaptation Policy and Governance > Multilevel and Transnational Climate Change Governance