Reconciling certification and intact forest landscape conservation

Kleinschroth Fritz, Garcia Claude, Ghazoul Jaboury. 2019. Reconciling certification and intact forest landscape conservation. Ambio, 48 (2) : 153-159.

Quartile : Q1, Sujet : ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES / Quartile : Q2, Sujet : ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL

Liste HCERES des revues (en SHS) : oui

Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Economie-gestion; Géographie-Aménagement-Urbanisme-Architecture

Résumé : In 2014, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) added a new criterion to its principles that requires protection of intact forest landscapes (IFLs). An IFL is an extensive area of forest that lacks roads and other signs of human activity as detected through remote sensing. In the Congo basin, our analysis of road networks in formally approved concessionary logging areas revealed greater loss of IFL in certified than in noncertified concessions. In areas of informal (i.e., nonregulated) extraction, road networks are known to be less detectable by remote sensing. Under the current definition of IFL, companies certified under FSC standards are likely to be penalized relative to the noncertified as well as the informal logging sector on account of their planned road networks, despite an otherwise better standard of forest management. This could ultimately undermine certification and its wider adoption, with implications for the future of sustainable forest management.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : forêt, certification des forêts, protection de la forêt, aménagement forestier, bassin versant

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : République démocratique du Congo, Congo, République centrafricaine, Cameroun, Guinée Équatoriale, Gabon

Classification Agris : K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales
P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières
D50 - Législation

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 5 (2019-) - Territoires

Agences de financement européennes : European Commission

Programme de financement européen : H2020

Projets sur financement : (EU) DAFNE: Use of a Decision-Analytic Framework to explore the water-energy-food NExus in complex and trans-boundary water resources systems of fast growing developing countries

Auteurs et affiliations

• Kleinschroth Fritz, ETH (CHE) - auteur correspondant
• Garcia Claude, CIRAD-ES-UPR Forêts et sociétés (CHE) ORCID: 0000-0002-7351-0226
• Ghazoul Jaboury, ETH (CHE)

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/591574/)

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