Many areas of science, including conservation and environmental management, regularly
require engaging stakeholders or experts to produce consensus or technical inputs. The …

The extent and causes of chemical, physical and biological degradation of soil, and of soil
loss, vary greatly in different countries in Western Europe. The objective of this review paper …

Ecological restoration is key to counteracting anthropogenic degradation of biodiversity and
to reducing disaster risk. However, there is limited knowledge of barriers hindering the wider …

In the face of accelerating forest degradation and deforestation, forest certification emerged
in the early 1990s as a voluntary and market-based mechanism to promote environmentally …

Abstract Despite being the European Union country with the second largest wooded area
and the fourth in terms of forest occupation with respect to its territory, only 9.47% of the …

Europe has been implementing eco-labelling on forest products for the last two decades as
a market-oriented tool to combat forest degradation and manage forest resources …

Forestland privatization and transition to a market economy triggered important changes in
the Romanian forest sector, imposing challenges for forest management structures …

This chapter identifies and analyses the potential benefits, impacts and contributions of
efforts to achieve SDG 12–Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP)–on forests and …

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Sustainable Green Ecosystem Council
(SGEC) are deployed as forest certification schemes in Japan. This study aimed to identify …

Forest certification, a proxy for sustainable forest management, covers more than 10% of the
world's forests. Under forest certification, forest managers and landowners must comply with …