The emergence of non-state market-driven (NSMD) global environmental governance: a cross-sectoral assessment

Auld, Graeme; Balboa, Cristina M.; Bernstein, Steven; Cashore, Benjamin

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511627170.009

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“…Today, there are in total 447 labels (www.ecolabelindex.com/ecolabels (accessed 17 March 2014)), addressing different aspects of the production and trade process. Over time, these labels have come to include more substantive issues and become more detailed and stringent (Auld, 2014;Auld et al, 2009;Gibbon and Lazaro, 2010). Table 2 illustrates the rapid growth of some selected certified commodities and their relative share of global production and consumption.…”

Section: Private Certification As a Global Food Governance Instrumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global sustainability standards and food security: Exploring unintended effects of voluntary certification in palm oil

Oosterveer

Adjei

Vellema

et al. 2014

Global Food Security

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Section: Private Certification As a Global Food Governance Instrumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global sustainability standards and food security: Exploring unintended effects of voluntary certification in palm oil

Oosterveer

Adjei

Vellema

et al. 2014

Global Food Security

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“…The organization and coordination of the various activities in an agricultural commodity supply chain, and the implications of power distribution among actors involved in processes of production, consumption, and distribution is the central focus of global commodity value chain analysis (e.g., Gereffi et al 2005, Auld et al 2009, Mayer and Gereffi 2010, Lee et al 2012, Rueda et al 2017. Recent studies on agricultural commodity roundtables provide some insights into the processes by which supply chain actors collaborate with NGOs to create a shared understanding of sustainability, the environmental and social externalities and spillovers of agriculture (Boons and Mendoza 2010).…”

Section: Telecoupling and Social-ecological Food Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The result was the emergence of private governance mechanisms for sustainability, mainly certification programs that delivered technical assistance, created codes of conduct, and allowed compliant products to use a label to differentiate the product in the market (Auld et al 2009, Auld 2010. By providing better prices and a new market outlet these programs sought to stabilize prices and support the livelihoods of coffee growers through more environmentally sound practices and explicit commitments to support labor and human rights.…”

Section: Feedback To Governancementioning

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Transforming governance in telecoupled food systems

Eakin¹,

Rueda²,

Mahanti³

2017

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ABSTRACT. In this paper we analyze how new actors, interests, and resources become salient to food system governance and how the domain of food system governance transforms as a result. Specifically, we focus on how the boundaries of food systems are redefined and new institutions are developed through the explicit recognition of distal interactions and feedbacks-telecoupling-operating in the food system space. Telecoupling can stimulate new forms of governance, such as the development of codes of conduct and certification schemes, with positive impacts on food and livelihood security; when ignored, telecouplings can exacerbate undesirable social and ecological outcomes in linked systems. We present a typology of telecoupled food systems, highlighting three dimensions of distance that can be present in systems that become telecoupled: social, institutional, and physical. We use that typology to explore the evolution of telecoupling and governance change in two case studies. We associate the tendency for changes in governance that occur in each case with the nature of "distance" in the systems in question: whether the systems are distal in terms of social and/or institutional ties, or in the resource base, or some combination of all three dimensions of distance. The challenge of overcoming distance is not the only issue that affects the possibility of governance change; the cases illustrate that the cultural and economic conditions of the connected systems, the agency of actors involved, and their political and social relations and networks all come to play in enabling governance transformation in telecoupled systems.

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“…In this context, the term 'non-state actors' will refer to corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Their involvement with GEG includes the following broad categories: 'governance' roles in the protection of the environment (sometimes referred to as 'delegated authority' 64 ), influencing the development of IEL, 65 and developing non-legally binding environmental standards sometimes referred to as 'non-state market driven' (NSMD) initiatives 66 that are often said to fall under the more general heading of 'transnational environmental regimes'. 67 These different types of interaction have not developed in a coordinated manner and are not always easily classified; as such the distinctions between them are often blurred.…”

Section: Non-state Actors and The Compartmentalization Of Law And Legmentioning

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The Use of ‘Macro’ Legal Analysis in the Understanding and Development of Global Environmental Governance

Turner¹

2016

TEL

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This article examines the manner in which 'macro' legal analysis can potentially assist in overcoming some of the issues that are faced in the understanding and development of global environmental governance (GEG). It argues that the analysis of law through separate and distinct disciplines such as environmental law, trade law, corporate law, and human rights law, results in what this article refers to as 'micro' legal analysis. As such, it contends that this can have the effect of creating obstacles in the development of coherent and effective legal and policy choices related to the protection of the environment. It illustrates these arguments with examples of practical problems that have arisen from the separation of legal issues in practice and provides the theoretical underpinnings, based on the critique of international lawyers, for the application of 'macro' legal analysis. In other words, it argues for a form of analysis that would consider the entire range of relevant legal disciplines in a unitary process. It then provides a methodology for the development and application of 'macro' legal analysis in relation to environmental issues. Finally, it considers the potential that this approach could have within the field of GEG and comments on the implications that it could have on the way that lawyers are trained in the future.

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The emergence of non-state market-driven (NSMD) global environmental governance: a cross-sectoral assessment

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Global sustainability standards and food security: Exploring unintended effects of voluntary certification in palm oil

Global sustainability standards and food security: Exploring unintended effects of voluntary certification in palm oil

Transforming governance in telecoupled food systems

The Use of ‘Macro’ Legal Analysis in the Understanding and Development of Global Environmental Governance

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