60 Citations
The Emergence of Global Commodity Governance
- Political ScienceSustainable Commodity Use
- 2021
Whereas the challenges of GCG are manifold, its principal task lies in ensuring a functional commodity sector (Sect. 2.1). The ‘balanced’ mode through which it pursues this objective constitutes a…
How Do States Benefit from Nonstate Governance? Evidence from Forest Sustainability Certification
- Political ScienceGlobal Environmental Politics
- 2018
Forest sustainability certification is emblematic of governance mechanisms associated with neoliberal state reforms. Despite being conceived as a means of compensating for the unwillingness or…
National Government Responses to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Fisheries Certification: Insights from Atlantic Canada
- Political Science
- 2013
Over the last decade, the proliferation of social and environmental certification programmes has attracted the attention of a growing number of political scientists interested in new forms of…
Voluntary standards, expert knowledge and the governance of sustainability networks
- Business
- 2013
Products certified according to their environmental and social sustainability are becoming an important feature of production, trade and consumption in the agro-food sector. ‘Sustainability networks’…
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and the Making of a Market for ‘Sustainable Fish’
- Economics
- 2012
Marketâbased instruments of fishery governance have been promoted in the past two decades on the basis of two widespread expectations: that complying with sustainability standards will lead to…
Fair trade governance: revisiting a framework to analyse challenges and opportunities for sustainable development towards a green economy
- Business, Political ScienceDiscover Sustainability
- 2021
As a relatively new form of non-state governance, the fair trade movement presents an opportunity to promote sustainable production and consumption and hence social change. Global market demands and…
Living in decline – the dynamics of anthropogenic disturbances in the recent landcover history of Manchuria and its consequences for Northeast Asia
- Environmental ScienceAsian Geographer
- 2021
ABSTRACT The paper examines the recent landcover history of Manchuria and its implications for a socio-ecological decline that is spreading across Northeast Asia. Beginning by looking at forest…
Evolving Perspectives of Stewardship in the Seafood Industry
- HistoryFrontiers in Marine Science
- 2021
Humanity has never benefited more from the ocean as a source of food, livelihoods, and well-being, yet on a global scale this has been accompanied by trajectories of degradation and persistent…
Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption of Seafood Through Enhanced Mandatory Food Labeling
- Political ScienceFrontiers in Marine Science
- 2020
To contribute to the debate about sustainable seafood consumption, this article considers the role of mandatory food labeling. The article first flags the rise of a policy paradigm of shared…