Assessment of Chain-of-Custody Certification in the Czech and Slovak Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F17%3A74996" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/17:74996 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su9101898" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su9101898</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su9101898" target="_blank" >10.3390/su9101898</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessment of Chain-of-Custody Certification in the Czech and Slovak Republic

Original language description

Forest certification is a voluntary verification tool that has been gaining importance within the global sustainability issues as an independent verification tool for sustainable forest management and wood processing industry and as an influencer in private and public purchasing policies and a component of emerging wood harvesting and trade legality schemes. This study focuses on the chain-of-custody (CoC) component of forest certification. A survey of CoC certified companies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia was carried out to explore the understanding of the concept and role of forest and CoC certification as an environmental, economic, and social tool. It aimed to determine expectations following from the implementation of CoC certification by companies and to identify difficulties in existing certified wood product supply chains and costs related to purchase and sales of certified forest products, respectively. Results indicate that respondents demonstrated a high level of understanding of the C

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

000414896200225

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85032854659