Issues for impact evaluation design of FSC certification of natural forest management

Romero Claudia, Putz Francis E., Sills Erin O., Guariguata Manuel, Cerutti Paolo Omar, Lescuyer Guillaume. 2015. Issues for impact evaluation design of FSC certification of natural forest management. In : Proceedings of the 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology and 4th European Congress for Conservation Biology " Mission biodiversity: choosing new paths for conservation". Visconti P. (ed.), Game E. (ed.), Mathevet R. (ed.), Wilkerson M. (ed.). Washington DC : Society for conservation biology, Résumé, 591. International Congress for Conservation Biology. 27, Montpellier, France, 2 Août 2015/6 Août 2015.

Note générale : A l'occasion de ce congrès, s'est également déroulé le 4th European Congress for Conservation Biology, du 2 au 6 août 2015, Montpellier, France

Résumé : FSC natural forest management certification has been implemented for >20 years. FSC's goal is to provide a system through which responsible forest management is recognized by consumers and others. Our team works on the design of an empirical theory-based impact evaluation (IE) of the biophysical, social, economic, and policy impacts of this intervention in Brazil, Peru and Indonesia. The range of expected outcomes, and the scales at which impacts ensue, forced us to use inter and trans-disciplinary approaches to define the IE scope and goals. While this research is still ongoing, our goal is to share lessons learned in tackling the complexity of the social-ecological systems where the FSC intervention occurs. We present ideas that see evaluation as a knowledge-generating process as well as a goal in itself. Thus, we introduce the rationale for a multi-stakeholder platform to assure the IE design would be built upon discussions with a range of social actors on the value of this knowledge-generation research to improve their conservation practice. We introduce a conceptual framework that lays out the foundation for the IE work, tightly linked to relevant concepts for conservation biologists such as adaptive management and systems thinking. We discuss results of preparatory studies that provide information used as a backbone for the IE design and that attempts, from the different angles where conservation trade-offs occur, to provide a roadmap for the IE. Studies include a descriptive analysis of auditing and accreditation activities aimed at providing transparency and accountability to the audit component behind certification. We developed country-based studies of political economy factors that underlie historical issues regarding forested lands use and analyze these issues across countries. We ground on these quantitative and qualitative studies hypotheses on how forest management decisions in general and FSC certification in particular, have occurred.

Auteurs et affiliations

• Romero Claudia, University of Florida (USA)
• Putz Francis E., University of Florida (USA)
• Sills Erin O., North Carolina State University (USA)
• Guariguata Manuel, CIFOR (PER)
• Cerutti Paolo Omar, CIFOR (KEN)
• Lescuyer Guillaume, CIRAD-ES-UPR BSef (IDN) ORCID: 0000-0003-0952-8656

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