Global Forest Sustainability and Certification course at NCSU
NCSU course #for595g

Course Description

In the last decade, Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) and forest certification have become the dominant paradigms that address forest management and protection in the world. Each of these subjects addresses economic, ecologic, and social components of forestry. Several international processes and accords address SFM in temperate and tropical forests. These generally include broad criteria that state principles for forest management, and indicators that can be used to measure and track the status of the world’s forests at the national, or perhaps forest management unit, level. Forest certification focuses on measuring forest management, environmental protection, and social benefits from forest ownership and forest practices at the forest management unit or stand level. These new public processes and private forest certification systems all work within the existing context of national, state, or province forestry laws and agencies. The interaction of these public and private policies for forestry and other resources determine the management and protection of forests.

Attached is Cubbage et al. December 2003, Journal of Forestry, Forest Certification of State and University Lands in North Carolina in PDF format.

Attached is the Forest Certification Costs and Benefits Jan, 2003 document in PDF format.

Attached is the Implementing Forest Cetification Aug, 2002 document in PDF format

Attached below is the Press Release from NCDENR on Feb. 19, 2001 in PDF format.

Attached below is the May 4, 2001 Report in PDF format.

Developing and Implementing Forest Certification on State and University Lands in North Carolina

Larry Jervis, Judd Edeburn, Warren Boyette, Susan Moore, Frederick Cubbage, Daniel Richter, and William Gardner