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The Role of Certification in Protecting the World’s Forests

In: Globalization and Self-Regulation

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  • Tensie Whelan
  • Emily Dwinnells

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Since the Industrial Revolution, the global population has grown from 1.6 billion to 6.1 billion, with 80 percent of the growth occurring between 1950 and 2000. The United Nations has projected that the world’s population will surpass 9 billion people by 2050.1 One significant side effect of this growth has been the destruction of the world’s forests—the repository of biodiversity, medicines, livelihoods, water, and carbon. In the past 300 years, forest cover has decreased by nearly 40 percent, with approximately three-quarters disappearing within the past two centuries.2

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  • Tensie Whelan & Emily Dwinnells, 2011. "The Role of Certification in Protecting the World’s Forests," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: S. Prakash Sethi (ed.), Globalization and Self-Regulation, chapter 6, pages 191-210, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-34857-8_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230348578_6
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