IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:

AMERICA'S PRIVATE FORESTS: STATUS AND STEWARDSHIP
Best, Constance, and Laurie A. Wayburn. Island Press, 2001.

America's Private Forests presents extensive data gathered from diverse sources and offers a concise overview of the current status of privately owned forests in the United States. As well as describing the state of private forests, the book sets forth detailed information on a wide range of approaches to conservation along with an action agenda for implementing those strategies likely to be most effective.

BAD HARVEST: TIMBER TRADE AND THE DEGRADATION OF GLOBAL FORESTS
Dudley, Nigel, and Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud and Francis Sullivan. Earthscan Publications, 1995.

Bad Harvest presents an incisive account of the role that the timber trade has played in the loss and degradation of forests around the world. It examines the environmental consequences of the trade on boreal, temporal and tropical regions, and its impacts for local people working and living in the forests. It also looks at the changing nature of the trade, and assesses current national and international initiatives to address the impacts of deforestation. Finally, the authors show how things could be improved in the future, by presenting a new strategy for sustainable forest management.

CERTIFICATION OF FOREST PRODUCTS: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES.
Viana, Virgilio M. (Ed.), and Jamison Ervin (Ed.), Richard Z. Donovan (Ed.), Chris Elliott (Ed.), Henry Gholz (Ed.). Island Press, 1996.

The book presents an overview of the mechanics, background, and implications of voluntary forest certification programs. It features perspectives from all parties involved, from both southern and northern hemispheres, including the forest products industry, indigenous communities, academics, biologists, certifiers, policymakers, environmental activists, and retailers.

CHANGING LANDSCAPES
Poore, Duncan. Earthscan Publications, 2003.

Changing Landscapes is a history of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), its aims, policies and achievements, drawing on contemporary records and the author's own wide experience. The book uses examination of past successes and failures to formulate a 21st-century agenda for the most practical ways of improving the management of forests and deciding forest policies.

GOVERNING THROUGH MARKETS: FOREST CERTIFICATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF NON-STATE AUTHORITY
Cashore, Benjamin, and Graeme Auld, and Deanna Newsom. Yale University Press, 2004.

This book documents five cases in which the Forest Stewardship Council, a forest certification program backed by leading environmental groups, has competed with industry and landowner-sponsored certification systems for legitimacy. The authors compare the politics behind forest certification in five countries. They reflect on why there are differences regionally, discuss the impact the Forest Stewardship Council has had on other certification programs, and assess the ability of private forest certification to address global forest deterioration.

THE FOREST CERTIFICATION HANDBOOK
Nussbaum, Ruth, and Markku Simula. Earthscan Publications, 2005.First published in 1995,

The Forest Certification Handbook has become the landmark book concerning all aspects of forest and wood product certification from policy to business to in-the-field technical issues.

FOREST CERTIFICATION IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: HEALING THE LANDSCAPE
Smith, Walter. CRC, 2000.

Forest Certification In Sustainable Development highlights the history, importance, and rewards of forest certification. The book discusses the issues involved in mainstream forestry as it is currently practiced, and what can be done to create sustainable forestry. It includes an overview of the Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood certification process.

FOREST CERTIFICATION: ROOTS, ISSUES, CHALLENGES, AND BENEFITS
Vogt, Kristina. CRC, 1999.

Offering valuable advice to both certifiers and landowners, Vogt examines the historical roots of forest certification, the factors that guide the development of certification protocols, the players involved in certification, the factors determining the customers to be certified, and the benefits of certification.

FORESTS IN LANDSCAPES: ECOSYSTEM APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABILITY
Sayer, Jeffrey A., and Stewart Maginnis. Earthscan Publications, 2005.

Drawing on case studies from Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, Australia, the Congo and Central America, Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have occurred in forest management in recent decades. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political ecology and economics of forest management, and review the information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators to achieve broad societal goals for forests.

OUR FORESTS, OUR FUTURE
World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development, World Commission on Forestry, Sustainable Development. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Our Forests, Our Future reviews the present status and future outlook of forests comprehensively, providing ecological and economic statistics and broad-scope analyses.

SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY HANDBOOK
(2nd edition) Higman, Sophie, and James Mayers, Stephen Bass, Neil Judd and Ruth Nussbaum. Earthscan Publications, 2005.

The Sustainable Forestry Handbook is an essential aid to understanding and implementing sustainable forest management. Aimed at forest managers and employing extensive cross referencing and easy to understand illustrations, this handbook provides a clear and concise guide to the practicalities of implementing international standards for sustainable forest management.