Highlights•There is animpacts turn'in forest certification research.•To date, very little is known
about the impacts of forest certification more broadly, especially indirect and unanticipated …

Forest certifications (FCs) and community forest management (CFM) are two major forest
governance interventions whose aim is to reverse forest degradation and deforestation …

We are living in a time of crisis on planet Earth. Urgent calls for transformational change are
getting louder. Technical solutions have an important role to play in addressing pressing …

Tropical forests and their biodiversity are disappearing, despite decades of conservation
efforts. Are we now in a position to understand whether some conservation strategies work …

Deforestation and forest fragmentation are leading drivers of biodiversity loss. Protected
areas have been the leading conservation policy response, yet their scale and scope remain …

Forest certification was introduced in the late 1980s as a countermeasure to address the
deforestation and forest degradation issues which caused major concern among …

To improve the likelihood of conservation success, donors, policy makers, nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs), and researchers are increasingly interested in making conservation …

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 …

Informality accounts for a significant proportion of the forestry labour market and provides a
critical livelihood option for millions of people in developing regions. Recent estimates …

Forest concessions in Central Africa are being subjected to a combination of pressures from
agribusiness investments, population growth and the informalisation of the domestic timber …