There is a growing interest to take into account dry forests in planning sustainable development in arid and semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa. A mixed quantitative and qualitative research design involving various data collection tools was employed to examine the significance of dry forest income...

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; List of acronyms and abbreviations; List of contributors; 1 Cutting edge: sustainability in the forestry sector; PART 1 Corporate social responsibility in the forestry sector; 2 Emerging policies and legality...

The increasing area covered by forest plantations creates a demand for trustworthy mechanisms to ensure they are responsibly established and managed. In the last twenty years efforts have increased to develop standards and guidelines as voluntary-based policy tools for guaranteeing sustainable...

A shift from government to governance in the approaches to forest policy formulation and related decision-making procedures is taking place at global level. Policy-makers and other actors traditionally involved in forestry-related decision-making have to tackle and apply new concepts and tools,...

Projects aiming at reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) still account for a small share of the voluntary carbon market. Indeed, although carbon buyers claimed REDD credits to be the most desirable ones, and despite the steps forward for a REDD+ approval under the...

Harvesting wild edible fungi for recreation, home consumption or to supply small local markets has traditionally been a popular activity in rural Finland. Yet some species, such as ceps (Boletus edulis) and pine boletes (Boletus pinophilus), which are well appreciated in Southern Europe, were...