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The Forest and the Marine Stewardship Councils constitute new global governance institutions using voluntary certification and labelling as market incentives to encourage sustainable management. Utilizing a comparative political economic framework, the authors analyse shifting British, Canadian and Australian responses to the stewardship councils.
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'This book provides a comprehensive and timely analysis of the role of the state in market- and civil society led global commodity governance. Focusing on forest and fisheries certification, Gale and Haward demonstrate that governments influence processes and outcomes in more ways than you would think. It is essential reading for all who have dismissed governments as insignificant actors in global commodity governance' Lars H. Gulbrandsen, Senior Research Fellow, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway
'To effectively analyze natural resource industries requires a broad, holistic approach. This book does the job nicely. In it, one finds a wonderful mix of topics. The emphasis is on the changing face of governance in fisheries and forestry, but it also includes a policy analysis of how ecolabelling and certification have evolved in these two commodity based industries. There are also useful comparisons of the key sustainability issues in fisheries and forestry. I learned a great deal here.' -Anthony Charles, St. Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
'Gale and Haward make a timely contribution to the recent flurry of studies comparing the most prominent environmental certification and labelling programs with global aspirations. Unlike existing studies, this volume systematically addresses the question of state responses to nonstate certification; this book is therefore a must-read for scholars interested in understanding the dynamic relationships between governmental authorities and new nongovernmental authorities in the making of global environmental governance.' - Paul Foley, Global Environmental Politics
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FRED P. GALE Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics, University of Tasmania, Australia.
MARCUS HAWARD Associate Professor in the School of Politics, University of Tasmania, Australia.
MARCUS HAWARD Associate Professor in the School of Politics, University of Tasmania, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Commodity Governance
Book Subtitle: State Responses to Sustainable Forest and Fisheries Certification
Authors: Fred Gale, Marcus Haward
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304697
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-51663-2Published: 01 February 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35454-2Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30469-7Published: 01 February 2011
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 315
Topics: International Political Economy, Environmental Politics, Political Science, International Relations, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Nature Conservation