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This chapter aims to discuss the role, means and success of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) system in transforming the global forestry sector.
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A ‘High Conservation Value’ (HCV) can be defined as a “biological, ecological, social or cultural value of outstanding significance or critical importance” (Brown et al. 2013). FSC developed the High Conservation Value of Forests (HCVF) concept in 1999 to ensure maintenance of significant environmental and social values in the context of responsible forest management. Since then, FSC broadened the concept from forests (HCVF) to include also non-forest areas (HCV). Today the concept covers six categories, including: (1) Species diversity; (2) Landscape-level ecosystems, ecosystem mosaics and Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL); (3) Ecosystems and habitats; (4) Ecosystem services; (5) Community needs; and (6) Cultural values. And it has been adopted by other natural resource sustainability standards and organisations which aim to maintain and/or enhance critical social and environmental values as part of responsible land management. For further information about HCV please refer to the FSC Principles and Criteria (FSC 2015a) as well as the HCV Resource Network website at: https://www.hcvnetwork.org/, last accessed 31 January 2019.
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The five pillars of the fivefold bottom line approach include: economic growth; transformation; social development; environment and biodiversity; and climate change (Dos Santos et al. 2014).
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An assessment by WWF (2015) of three forest certification schemes showed a clear difference between FSC on the one hand and PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) and MTCS (Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme) on the other. FSC had a 90% score on the 40 indicators concerning ‘certification and transparency’, ‘accreditation’ and ‘chain of custody’, where PEFC had a 45% score and MTCS only 40%.
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Blog entries can be read online (in Portuguese) at: http://altriflorestal.blogspot.com/, last accessed 31 January 2019.
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Arellano Gil, A., Colonna, T., Hontelez, J., Karmann, M., Pérez Oropeza, A. (2019). Forest Stewardship Council: Transforming the Global Forestry Sector. In: Schmidt, M., Giovannucci, D., Palekhov, D., Hansmann, B. (eds) Sustainable Global Value Chains. Natural Resource Management in Transition, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14877-9_26
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