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10 - Public Sector Engagement with Private Governance Programmes

Interactions and Evolutionary Effects in Forest and Fisheries Certification

from Part II - Fisheries and Forestry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2019

By
Lars H. Gulbrandsen
Edited by
Judith van Erp ,
Michael Faure ,
André Nollkaemper  and
Niels Philipsen
Judith van Erp
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Michael Faure
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
André Nollkaemper
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Niels Philipsen
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
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Summary

The certification of timber, fish, agricultural products, and other commodities has become a prominent form of nonstate governance. Although research has recognized that states enable or constrain nonstate regulatory efforts, we still know too little about the interactions between private and public authority in the governance of environmental problems. Through a careful examination of the role and influence of states in forest and fisheries certification programmes, this chapter demonstrates the close interconnections between private and public forms of regulation. The analysis shows how forest and fisheries certification programmes were influenced by the particular policy domains in which they emerged, via government efforts to regulate, support, or compete with these programmes, and through public procurement policies. From the empirical examination, the chapter identifies pathways and mechanisms of public–private governance interaction and generates hypotheses that can be examined across a larger number of cases.
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Smart Mixes for Transboundary Environmental Harm , pp. 211 - 236
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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