Green Practices Guideline for Forest Operation

FOREST GOVERNANCE AND GREEN PRACTICES Sustainable forestry, or sustainable forest management, is the practice of managing forests to meet the current needs and desires of society for forest resources, i.e., products, services, and values, without compromising the availability of these for future generations (Boyle et al.,2016). The concept of forest governance has evolved to engage multiple (public and private) actors at various scales, from local to global. The key principles guiding good governance of “green forests” include equity and justice, empowerment, accountability, transparency, subsidiarity, and sustainability. Forest governance is defined as the way in which public and private actors, including formal and informal institutions, smallholder and indigenous organisations, small, medium-sized, and large enterprises, civil society organisations, and other stakeholders negotiate, make and enforce binding decisions about the management, use, and conservation of forest resources (FAO,2005). TheNewDeal describes the greening of the economy as the “process of reconfiguring businesses and infrastructuretodeliverbetter returns on natural, human and economic capital investments, while at the same time reducing greenhouse gas emissions, extracting and using less natural resources, creating less waste and reducing social disparities.” 2 3 1 4 26 GREEN PRACTICES GUIDELINE FOR FOREST OPERATION