Study On The Operation Of Forest Strewardship Council China National Initiative

With the rapid development of forest certification, Forest Stewardship Council has been one ofthe recognized, most influential and credible scheme. In order to promote responsible forestmanagement, many countries established the FSC National Initiative. In China, Many relevantorganizations support to promote forest certification development process. In order to carry outforest certification work and try to be in line with the international practice as soon as possible,Chinese Academy of Forestry and WWF sponsored FSC China National Initiative-ForestCertification Working Group in China.This dissertation introduces the current status of FSC National Initiative around the world andresearches a lot of FSC National Initiative. Based on the analysis of experience of FSCNational Initiative in UK, Russia, Bolivia and PNG, this dissertation summarizes their successand defect. The feasibility of China Working Group was analyzed. According to the currentwork of China Working Group and the experiences of other FSC National Initiative, two levelsof management and performing function were analyzed, the former level includes the operationof organization's structure, membership management and strategy management, and the latterone includes standards setting and cooperation effectively with FSC, promoting FSC and ChinaWorking Group, striving for different parties' support, and training and education. In addition,the credit construction, human resource construction and the operation system constructionwere discussed. All these suggestions afford reference to the effective operation of ChinaWorking Group.