Abstract
Sustainable Forest Management is a main part of the Global Sustainable Management. The main instruments for the implementation of the concept of Sustainable Forest Management are Forest Certification and Forest Quality Management. In the article authors investigated the essence, content and principles of Sustainable Forest Management as a key element of the formation and implementation of the Sustainable Development of the Society and its adaptation in the case study of post-communist countries like Russia. Also specific of Forest Certification and Forest Quality Management in Russia was investigated. The obtained result laid the foundation for the review and systematization of the interests of key players in the domestic forest industry, the prerequisites and limitations for the implementation of the Sustainable Forest Management Concept. For this purpose, the authors carried out situational analysis, interviewing, content analysis of media texts. In the article are analyzed 7 top-forestry Russian enterprises and also Russian timber industry complex generally. Based on the results of the study, the interests and priorities of the parties participating in the development of the national concept of sustainable forest management have been identified and systematized. This allowed us to identify incentives and prerequisites, problems and limitations, as well as prospects and directions for the development of forest certification in the territory of the Russian Federation. Based on the research results, it is concluded that Quality Management and Forest Certification are considered by all stakeholder groups as a key tool for ensuring Sustainable Forest Management by the case study of Russia.
Highlights
In recent years, the scientists, public and political figures of many countries in the world are actively discussing the need to develop global and national strategies for the sustainable development of society
Our research shows that nowadays the problem of Sustainable Forest Management is popular in the world and the role of the quality management and certification in its development is critical and important
The presented data allow, on the one hand, to note the positive dynamics in the development of forest certification in the territory of Russia. They testify to the existence of problems and misunderstandings by the participants of this process of the forest certification role in the integration timber industry complex of Russia into the world economic space, as well as in the fight against illegally harvested wood in the country's trade turnover
Summary
The scientists, public and political figures of many countries in the world are actively discussing the need to develop global and national strategies for the sustainable development of society. The reason for such initiatives is connected with the fact that extensive industrial, socio-political and everyday life activity of people has become so large-scale that it generates more and more global contradictions and crisis situations threatening the very existence of human civilization. The basis of the concept of sustainable development of society was laid the unity of the economy, ecology and society due to report of Our Common Future by World Commission on Environment and Development, Oxford University (1987) (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987)
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