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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ON FOREST MANAGEMENT






UBC-UPM Conference on the Ecological, Social and Political Issues of the 
Certification of Forest Management was held May 13-16, 1996 in Putrajaya, 
Malaysia jointly sponsored by the Faculty of Forestry, University of 
British Columbia (Canada) and Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Pertanian, 
Malaysia.  

Conference Proceedings are now available.
Cost: 	$25 (Cdn) for libraries in Canada
	$25 (US) for libraries outside of Canada

The conference explored and debated the development of principles and 
criteria governing certification of forest practices and their products. The 
conference concentrated on the scientific issues of certification and how 
current policies proposed and policies being implemented included or took 
into account existing scientific bodies of knowledge and made 
recommendations for future areas of research. The goal of the conference was 
to contribute to the development of objective, systematic and scientifically 
based standards for certification of forestry operations. The conference 
emphasized a balance in geographic representation and between members of 
industry, non-governmental organizations, academics, environmental groups 
and government.

This conference was recognized as one of three key conferences which the 
United Nations Committee on Sustainable Development, Intergovernmental Panel 
on Forests would use the recommendations of in their final report to the UN 
in 1997.

Contents include papers on: 
"Stand Level Concepts and Indicators"
"Landscape Levels Concepts and Indicators"
"Monitoring Forest Practices"
"Economic Concepts and Indicators"
"Social Dimensions"
"International and Institutional Arrangements"
"National and Subnational Institutional Arrangements"
"Impacts of Certification" 
"A Review of Global Forest Management Certification Initiative: Political 
and Institutional Aspects"
"Technical and Scientific Elements of Forest Management Certification Programs"

ISBN 0-888865-429-4
Size: 8 1/2 x 11
314 pp 
includes CIP data

For more information or to order copies please email Sandra Schinnerl, 
Conference Director at sandra@unixg.ubc.ca