The Forest Certification Handbook

Activists Nussbaum and Simula write for the professional as they describe forest and wood product certification from policy to business to technical issues in the field. They describe how forest certification programs work, including forest standards, certification, accreditation, product tracing and claims. They show how and why to get certified, including setting up a group program and implementing the system. They put forest certification in context at the policy level, showing the costs and benefits of such a program, how phased certification works, how to build capacity and handle small forest enterprises. They include sources for more information, including descriptions of existing systems. This edition has been completely rewritten to reflect advances in research and changes in policies and regulations over the last decade. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ruth Nussbaum is Director of ProForest. Markku Simula is a senior consultant, member of the Board of Directors of Indufor and an external adviser on the State of the World's Forests for the FAO