Sustainable Forest Management a Global Review
Dhirender Kumar, CL Thakur, D. R. Bhardwaj, Nidhi Sharma, Harish Kumar Sharma, Parshant Sharma
Abstract
Sustainable forest management is one of the recent concept to full fill the sustainable development goals. The concept relies on certain criteria and indicator. There are about nine criteria and indicator processes throughout the world. The concept was introduced in India in 1999 at Indian institute of Forest management, Bhopal. This process is known as Dry Forest in Asia Process which include nine countries of the Dry Zone Asia. India developed its National set of 8 Criteria and 37 Indicators for the Sustainable Management of its Natural Forests adopted in the National Working Plan Code 2014. Forest certification is a voluntary process whereby an independent third party (the “certifier”) assesses the quality of forest management and production against a set of requirements (“standards”) predetermined by a public or private certification organization. However, forest certification India was started in 2019 to set standards for certifying India’s forests, their products and their sustainable management.