Mapping certified forests for sustainable management - A global tool for information improvement through participatory and collaborative mapping — Florian Kraxner (2017) | RDL Network
There are currently no spatially explicit, openly accessible data available on forest certification below national level, so understanding the drivers of certification in the past, examining the scope for further certification and using this information for development of future sustainable forest management strategies is challenging. Hence, this paper presents a methodology for the development of a global map of certified forest areas at 1 km resolution in order to satisfy this information need. Validation of the map with certified areas in Russia showed reasonable results, but the lack of openly accessible data requires broadening the strategy for improving the global certification map in the future. Thus, the second aim of the paper is to present an online tool for visualization and interactive improvement of the global forest certification product through collaborative mapping, aiming at a range of stakeholders including third-party certifiers, green NGOs, forestry organizations, decision-makers, scientists and local experts. Such an approach can help to make more accurate information on forest certification available, promote the sharing of data and encourage more transparent and sustainable forest management, i.e. both producers and users can benefit from this online tool.
Myroslava Lesiv, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Marcel Buchhorn, Linda See, Martina Dürauer, Ivelina Georgieva, Martin Jung, Florian Hofhansl, Katharina Schulze, Andrii Bilous, Volodymyr Blyshchyk, Liudmila Mukhortova, Carlos L. Muñoz Brenes, Leonid Krivobokov, Stéphan Ntie, Khongor Tsogt, Stephan Pietsch, Елена Тихонова, Moonil Kim, Fulvio Di Fulvio, Yuan-Fong Su, Roman Zadorozhniuk, Flavius Sîrbu, Kripal Panging, Svіtlana Bilous, S. B. Kovalevskii, Florian Kraxner, Ahmed Harb Rabia, Roman Vasylyshyn, Rekib Ahmed, Petro Diachuk, Serhii S. Kovalevskyi, Khangsembou Bungnamei, Kusumbor Bordoloi, Andrii Churilov, Olesia Vasylyshyn, Dhrubajyoti Sahariah, Anatolii P. Tertyshnyi, Anup Saikia, Žiga Malek, Kuleswar Singha, Roman Feshchenko, Reinhard Prestele, Ibrar ul Hassan Akhtar, Kiran Sharma, Galyna Domashovets, S. Spawn, Oleksii Blyshchyk, Oleksandr Slyva, Mariia Ilkiv, Oleksandr Melnyk, Vitalii Sliusarchuk, Анатолій Карпук, Andrii Terentiev, Valentin Bilous, Kateryna Blyshchyk, Maxim Bilous, Nataliia Bogovyk, Ivan Blyshchyk, С.А. Барталев, Mikhail Yatskov, Bruno Smets, Piero Visconti, Ian McCallum, Michael Obersteiner, Steffen Fritz
Myroslava Lesiv, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Marcel Buchhorn, Linda See, Martina Duerauer, Ivelina Georgieva, Martin Jung, Florian Hofhansl, Katharina Schulze, Andrii Bilous, Volodymyr Blyshchyk, Liudmila Mukhortova, Carlos L. Muñoz Brenes, Leonid Krivobokov, Stéphan Ntie, Khongor Tsogt, Stephan Pietsch, Елена Тихонова, Moonil Kim, Yuan-Fong Su, Roman Zadorozhniuk, Flavius Sîrbu, Kripal Panging, Svіtlana Bilous, S. B. Kovalevskii,
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