Policy instruments to enhance multi-functional forest management

Carbon, Fossil Fuel, and Biodiversity Mitigation With Wood and Forests

“…Forest certification (Cashore, Auld, & Newsom, 2004) and various carbon credits (Cairns & Lasserre, 2006) and REDD+ (Corbera, Schroeder, & Springate-Baginski, 2011) encourage forest management to provide carbon sequestration and other values such as biodiversity in the forest. Other policies are being considered to harvest forests for CO 2 reductions and FF savings (Cubbage, Harou, & Sills, 2007;Richter et al, 2009). The above issues need to be clarified before policies can be crafted that promote desired goals such as biodiversity protection, CO 2 sequestration, and FF savings (Ruddell et al, 2007 The National Research Council (1976) compared FF savings by using wood alternatives to steel, concrete, brick, and aluminum building materials in the 1970s.…”

Forest planning and public participation: a possible methodological approach

“…In fact, it is now widely recognized that this scale is the most suitable when considering the sustainability of the relationship between man and the forest and to guarantee the protection of the interests of the general public with regards to the forest itself. Furthermore, the use of such a scale is expected to facilitate linkages between forest planning and other planning tools, which, ever more numerous and often overlapping, influence land use today (Bettelini et al 2000, Cubbage et al 2007, Kant 2003, Schmithüsen 2007.…”

Implementation of the U.S. Legal, Institutional, and Economic Criterion and Indicators for the 2010 Montreal Process for Sustainable Forest Management

“…In order to understand and analyze the effectiveness of the legal, institutional, and economic framework for forests in the U.S., we drew from theory and research on policy instruments and their analysis (Sterner 2003, Cubbage et al 2007), "smart regulation" (Gunningham et al 1998), forest regulatory "rigor" (Cashore and McDermott 2004), and nonstate governance of sustainable forestry . Rooted in this literature, McGinley (2008) developed a theoretical model for analyzing the forest policy structure and approach of government regulation and non-government forest certification in prospective study countries in Latin America.…”