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How Do States Benefit from Nonstate Governance? Evidence from Forest Sustainability Certification

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  • Jesse Abrams
  • Erik Nielsen
  • Diana Diaz
  • Theresa Selfa
  • Erika Adams
  • Jennifer L. Dunn
  • Cassandra Moseley

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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 inability of states to regulate forest practices, in practice, forest certification has come to entail complex and hybrid relationships between private-sector, civil society, and government actors. Indeed, states have increasingly embraced certification as a means of complementing or even supplanting traditional forms of governmental regulation of the forest sector. Yet processes of neoliberalization imply both an expansion of opportunities for hybrid governance and a weakening of the state capacity that is often needed for successful implementation of certification initiatives. We analyze the complex relationships between neoliberalization, state capacity, and certification through two contrasting cases in Wisconsin, United States, and Entre Ríos, Argentina. Our findings illustrate the tensions within broadly neoliberal and postneoliberal regimes and highlight the persistence of long-standing patterns of state-led environmental governance.

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  • Jesse Abrams & Erik Nielsen & Diana Diaz & Theresa Selfa & Erika Adams & Jennifer L. Dunn & Cassandra Moseley, 2018. "How Do States Benefit from Nonstate Governance? Evidence from Forest Sustainability Certification," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 18(3), pages 66-85, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:18:y:2018:i:3:p:66-85
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    1. Kolcava, Dennis & Bernauer, Thomas, 2020. "Greening the Economy Through Voluntary Private Sector Initiatives or Government Regulation? A Public Opinion Perspective," OSF Preprints zsk43, Center for Open Science.
    2. Lemes, Pedro G. & Zanuncio, José C. & Jacovine, Laércio A.G. & Wilcken, Carlos F. & Lawson, Simon A., 2021. "Forest Stewardship Council and Responsible Wood certification in the integrated pest management in Australian forest plantations," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    3. Jessie L. Knowlton & Kathleen E. Halvorsen & David J. Flaspohler & Christopher R. Webster & Jesse Abrams & Sara M. Almeida & Stefan L. Arriaga-Weiss & Brad Barnett & Maíra R. Cardoso & Pablo V. Cerque, 2021. "Birds and Bioenergy within the Americas: A Cross-National, Social–Ecological Study of Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(3), pages 1-21, March.
    4. Nicolas Schmid & Leonore Haelg & Sebastian Sewerin & Tobias S. Schmidt & Irina Simmen, 2021. "Governing complex societal problems: The impact of private on public regulation through technological change," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(3), pages 840-855, July.

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