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Setting the Standard: Certification, Governance, and the Forest Stewardship Council
Setting the Standard Certification Governance and the Forest Stewardship Council Author:Chris Tollefson, Fred Gale, David Haley "Setting the Standard" chronicles the emergence and implications of an ambitious experiment in global governance: the Forest Stewardship Council. Born in 1993 as a grassroots initiative, the FSC aspires "to promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world's forests" through an international... more » system of forest certification."Setting the Standard" chronicles the challenges associated with implementing the FSC's global vision on the ground, through a pioneering case study of the difficult and protracted negotiations at the regional, national, and global levels that culminated in the establishment of an FSC standard for British Columbia. It also undertakes a comparative analysis of FSC standards and standard-setting processes, and reflects on the implications of the FSC experience for global governance and regulatory theory.« less