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The United States' Race to Certify Sustainable Forestry: Non-State Environmental Governance and the Competition for Policy-Making Authority

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Benjamin Cashore ,
Graeme Auld  and
Deanna Newsom
Benjamin Cashore*
Affiliation:
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Graeme Auld
Affiliation:
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Deanna Newsom
Affiliation:
Rainforest Alliance
*
Program on Forest Certification, Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 360 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511–2189, USA. Tel: + 1-203-432-3009; Fax: + 1-203-432-0026; E-mail: benjamin.cashore@yale.edu
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In recent years a range of public policy (Howlett 2000) and international relations (Cutler et al., 1999; Hurd, 1999; Haufler, 2001) scholars have devoted attention to the emergence of voluntary (Kernaghan 1999; Prakash 1999), market-based, and “private” regulatory regimes that have emerged to address matters of concern to global civil society that previously were largely addressed through state-centered public policy instruments and processes.

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Business and Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , November 2003 , pp. 219 - 259
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Copyright © V.K. Aggarwal 2003 and published under exclusive license to Cambridge University Press 

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This article presents the US chapter, and relevant parts of Chapter One, to our book, Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-state Authority (New Haven: Yale University Press). Yale University Press has encouraged us to seek publication of this chapter in a peer-reviewed journal: the bulk of the research was carried out under a competitive grant from the USDA's National Research Initiative Markets and Trade Program and the Canadian Embassy's Canadian Studies Faculty Research Grant Program. We wish to thank the following individuals for comments on earlier versions: Scott Wallinger, Fran Raymond Price, John Heissenbuttel, Jamie Lawson, Errol Meidinger, Charlene Zietsma, Erika Sasser, Michele Michelleti, Rudi Rüdiger Wurzel, Magnus Bostrom, Ilan Vertinsky, Michael Conroy, Aseem Prakash, Kernaghan Webb, Jackie Best, Andy White, Jason McNichol, Connie McDermott, Ben Gunneburg, Justin Stead, Stuart Goodall, Tom Jorling, Tim Mealey, Nigel Sizer, Rick Cantrell, Richard Donovan and Heiko Leideker.

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