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La certification comme outil de gouvernance des forêts publiques québécoises
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Roberge, Amélie |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | The popularity of forest certification is increasing at a global scale and the amount of certified land is growing. The government's ability to manage forest resources, however, is being questioned. Additionally, financial and human resources made available to governments to control management practices are decreasing. Thus, forest certification could be viewed as a potential tool to address forest management issues. Certification is a voluntary and transparent process that evaluates the quality of forest management based on predetermined criteria. Cunently, it is implemented by private industry. In Quebec, three norms are in use: the Forest Stewardship Council, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, and the Canadian Association of Normalization's CSA/Z809. In this doctoral dissertation, we attempted to define these norms as governance systems. The concept of governance implies that all stakeholders are involved in management processes. In the forest sector, such stakeholders are the civil society, government, and industry. The main objective of this research was to determine whether forest certification could act as a governance system in Quebec's public forests. A qualitative approach was used in this research. Data collection was obtained via surveys, interviews, and document analyses. Results suggest forest certification cannot be represented as an independent governance system in Quebec. Nevertheless, certification changed some aspects of forest management, particularly with regard to stakeholder participation and performance of certified companies. However, the actual situation, where forest certification and the conventional forest regime function independently, shows weaknesses in terms of efficiency and accountability. Impartation of some State's activities could help optimize the quality of forest management. Thus, forest certification can act as a supplemental forest management tool to the traditional system, but it does not have all of the necessary elements to make it an entirely independent system. |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
