Enhancing outdoor recreation and biodiversity through payments for ecosystem services
- 2018
- Enhancing outdoor recreation and biodiversity through payments for ecosystem services
- Responsible management, Sustainable investments
- 2018
- AA.VV.
As part of the Springer Nature SharedIt initiative, you can now read the article “Enhancing outdoor recreation and biodiversity through payments for ecosystem services: emerging potentials from selected Natura 2000 sites in Italy” written with the contribution of Etifor’s team.
READ THE ARTICLEForest Management Auditing Certification of Forest Products and Services
- 2018
- Forest Management Auditing Certification of Forest Products and Services
- Responsible management
- Earthscan, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- 2018
- L.Brotto; D.Pettenella
Forest managers, auditors and project developers require a new range of skills: this book, co-editing by Etifor, outlines the market-based tools that are required by such professionals to ensure corporate social responsibility in the forestry sector.
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It is difficult to find products or services in the market that are not defined as sustainable.
But what makes a product or a service really sustainable?
A good reference standard and a serious and independent system of control (audit).
Lucio Brotto (Etifor Srl) and Davide Pettenella (University of Padova) as editors, and the rest of the contributing authors, were able to produce this new book that addresses the subject giving a complete and update picture of the standards and certification systems implemented in the forestry sector.
Beginning with a market and policy analysis, the book fosters a deeper understanding of standards, methodologies and auditing techniques. The certification process is described within the general framework of the market-based tools available in the forestry sector. The book shows how a mutual learning process between established forest certification processes and innovative markets is needed. It addresses key topics such as High Conservation Value (HCV) approaches, the role of independent certification versus due diligence process, the new development connected to environmental services certification. Numerous case studies are included from a wide range of contexts, including both temperate and tropical forests in developed and developing countries.
This publication is an effective way to think about the state-of-the-art of Forest Management Auditing and help new professionals through the many and complex options in this area.
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Forests and Water Valuation and payments for forest ecosystem services
- 2018
- Forests and Water Valuation and payments for forest ecosystem services
- Responsible management
- UNECE
- 2018
- AA.VV.
The objectives of this study are to further improve our understanding about the ways in which payments for ecosystem services schemes can be applied to forests, in particular focusing on forest’s hydrological functions for the mutual benefit of both humans and the environment.
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The objectives of the”Forests and Water – Valuation and payments for forest ecosystem services” study are to further improve our understanding about the ways in which payments for ecosystem services schemes can be applied to forests, in particular focusing on forest’s hydrological functions for the mutual benefit of both humans and the environment. In addition, the study covers advances and challenges facing these schemes and provides practical guidance for policymakers and practitioners. This study contains the most comprehensive currently available database of case studies on water-related payment for forest ecosystem services schemes in the UNECE region.
The study can be considered as having the most up-to-date database currently available of case studies on PES related to water in forest ecosystems. The study, published by UNECE FAO, includes contributions from our team and the TESAF Department of the University of Padova.
Among the authors are (in alphabetical order):
- Alessandro Leonardi, CEO Etifor
- Mauro Masiero, Università degli Studi di Padova and Etifor co-founder
- Colm O’Driscoll, Sustainable Investments Officer Etifor
- Davide Pettenella, Università degli Studi di Padova and Etifor co-founder
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What does the future hold for poplar cultivation?
- 2018
- What does the future hold for poplar cultivation?
- Responsible management, Sustainable investments
- 2018
- G.Levarato, A. Pra, D. Pettenella
Download this survey in Italian on the state-of-the-art and the prospects for industrial use of poplar timber. The report is based on thesis work in ‘Forestry and Environmental Technologies’ of the University of Padova and has been produced in collaboration with Etifor.
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Social Capital and Local Development
- 2017
- Social Capital and Local Development
- Local development
- 2017
- Pisani, E., Franceschetti, G., Secco, L., Christoforou, A. (Eds.)
This pubblication was edited by our collegues of the TESAF Dep. (University of Padova) with the support of Catie Burlando (Etifor) and it is becoming an useful tool for our rural and local development’s team. The study proposes an original and unique methodology for understanding and measuring social capital and provides a close scrutiny of the economic implications of social capital, in particular with regard to European rural areas.
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Impact Investing: Finance to Support the Socio-Environmental Impact
- 2017
- Impact Investing: Finance to Support the Socio-Environmental Impact
- Sustainable investments
- 2017
- Vv.Aa.
Lucio Brotto (Etifor) has developed the section 4.4 “Forests and Sustainable Agriculture” dedicated to forestry and agricultural investments with positive impacts on the environment. The pubblication “Impact Investing: Finance to Support the Socio-Environmental Impact” is promoted by the Forum for Sustainable Finance and developed by a Working Group.
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State of the forest carbon market in Italy 2016
- 2017
- State of the forest carbon market in Italy 2016
- Sustainable investments
- 2017
- Brotto Lucio, Corradini Giulia, Maluccio Saverio, etc.
The survey by Nucleo Monitoraggio Carbonio, analyzes the evolution of the market of voluntary investments in the forestry sector that aim to the creation of ecosystem services, with particular reference to the accounting of carbon credits generated by forest management projects, reforestation and afforestation realized for the compensation of polluting emissions.
DOWNLOAD ITALIAN VERSIONThe survey by Nucleo Monitoraggio Carbonio, analyzes the evolution of the market of voluntary investments in the forestry sector that aim to the creation of ecosystem services, with particular reference to the accounting of carbon credits generated by forest management projects, reforestation and afforestation realized for the compensation of polluting emissions.
Market Outlooks: Voluntary Carbon
- 2017
- Market Outlooks: Voluntary Carbon
- Responsible management, Sustainable investments
- 2017
- Kelley Hamrick, Lucio Brotto
The “STATE OF EUROPEAN MARKETS 2017 – Voluntary carbon” is a market outlook realized by Ecosystem Marketplace, Etifor and the University of Padova during ECOSTAR | NATURAL TALENTS an Erasmus+Knowledge Alliances project.
DOWNLOADThe “STATE OF EUROPEAN MARKETS 2017 – Voluntary carbon” is a market outlook realized by Ecosystem Marketplace, Etifor and the University of Padova during ECOSTAR | NATURAL TALENTS an Erasmus+Knowledge Alliances project.
Market Outlooks: Watershed Investments
- 2017
- Market Outlooks: Watershed Investments
- Responsible management, Sustainable investments
- 2017
- Genevieve Bennett, Franziska Ruef, Alessandro Leonardi
The “STATE OF EUROPEAN MARKETS 2017 – Watershed Investments” is a market outlook realized by Ecosystem Marketplace, Etifor and the University of Padova during ECOSTAR | NATURAL TALENTS an Erasmus+Knowledge Alliances project.
DOWNLOADThe “STATE OF EUROPEAN MARKETS 2017 – Watershed Investments” is a market outlook realized by Ecosystem Marketplace, Etifor and the University of Padova during ECOSTAR | NATURAL TALENTS an Erasmus+Knowledge Alliances project.