Legal Harvesting, Sustainable Sourcing and Cascaded Use of Wood for Bioenergy: Their Coverage through Existing Certification Frameworks for Sustainable Forest Management
The first objective of this paper was to provide an inventory of developments of certification schemes for sustainable biomass production, following recent EU legislation (both formalized and under development). One main pillar is the EU Timber Regulation for legal harvesting; a second one is the EU...
Main Authors: | Richard Sikkema, Martin Junginger, Jinke van Dam, Gerben Stegeman, David Durrant, Andre Faaij |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2014-09-01
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Series: | Forests |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/5/9/2163 |
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