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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 The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) was born in 1993 as a grassroots initiative with the goal to promote 'environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests' through an international system of forest certification. The recent establishment of an FSC standard for British Columbia was achie... more »ved only after difficult and protracted negotiations at the regional, national, and global levels. Drawing on a pioneering case study of the negotiation process, this book explores the challenges associated with implementing the FSC's global vision. It also undertakes a comparative analysis of FSC standards and standard-setting processes elsewhere in Canada and in the US and Europe, and grapples with the broader implications of the emerging FSC experience for global governance and regulatory theory.« less