Topic Overview

This tropic introduce the concept of market based conservation policies and practices, why and how they evolved including its impact. Particularly, you will learn about forest certification, dominant forest certification processes, its trend globally as well as in Asia and it’s evaluate its effectiveness for sustainable forest management. Development of national forest certification in China will be introduced along with analysis of its impact. Moreover, you will also learn about forest carbon market particularly “reduction of emission from deforestation and degradation of forest, commonly known as REDD+. You will discuss how and why this is evolved along with its impact including challenges and potential solutions with selected case studies from Asia.

Learning Outcomes

• Describe forest certification and analyze its trend, dominant forest certification process and discuss its impact for sustainable forest management in Asia with selected cases.
• Describe forest carbon market and discuss about REDD+ development and impact with selected case studies from Asia.

Required & Optional Readings

Required Readings

• Ehrenberg-Azcárate, F., & Peña-Claros, M. (2020). Twenty years of forest management certification in the tropics: Major trends through time and among continents. Forest Policy and Economics, 111, 102050.
• Van der Ven, H., & Cashore, B. (2018). Forest certification: the challenge of measuring impacts. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 32, 104-111.
• Barr, C. M., & Sayer, J. A. (2012). The political economy of reforestation and forest restoration in Asia–Pacific: Critical issues for REDD+. Biological conservation, 154, 9-19.
• Maraseni, T. N., Poudyal, B. H., Rana, E., Khanal, S. C., Ghimire, P. L., & Subedi, B. P. (2020). Mapping national REDD+ initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region. Journal of Environmental Management, 269, 110763.

Fundamental Concepts

• Topic 3.3.1 Forest Certification key conservation policy and its practice in Asia.pdf Download Topic 3.3.1 Forest Certification key conservation policy and its practice in Asia.pdf
• Topic 3.3.2 Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) in Asia Download Topic 3.3.2 Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) in Asia

Self-test Quiz (For certificate learning only)

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Online Discussions (For certificate learning only)

Each week you will participant in the topic discussions of the week. The purpose of these discussions is to enable you to critically discuss and apply the core concepts you learned each week. Each online weekly topic discussion will include two parts: 1) your initial response to topic discussion questions posted by the instructor; and 2) your peer comment on other peer posts. Instructor will post one or two discussion questions related to the assigned module and topic every week. Response to these online discussion question and subsequent peer comment on these responses is mandatory. By doing this, you will enhance your knowledge through multiple perspectives posted by your peers. These questions will be focused on the most important aspect of the assigned module and topic and reflection on how you can apply these concept and tools from the assigned module and topic in your own context. For detailed requirements and grading rubric go to Online Discussions page.

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Graded Assignment for the Week (For certificate learning only)

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