Quality and Legitimacy of Global Governance: Case Lessons by T. Cadman

Quality and Legitimacy of Global Governance: Case Lessons by T. Cadman

By T. Cadman

Because the foreign neighborhood struggles with significant matters reminiscent of deforestation, it truly is more and more turning to sustainable improvement and market-based mechanisms to take on environmental difficulties. targeting forestry, this ebook investigates the legitimacy of world boards and evaluates the standard of world governance within the present period.

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The chapter traces the historical development of international cooperation over forest management prior to and after the ‘Earth’ Summit. It argues that traditional multilateral processes were ultimately incapable of solving the forest problem, leaving the way open for alternative market-based mechanisms, such as the FSC and other more nationally focussed certification initiatives. The next four chapters systematically investigate the governance arrangements of each of the case studies, commencing with FSC, and following with ISO, PEFC and UNFF.

17 These were followed in 1998 by set of PanEuropean Operational Level Guidelines (PEOLG). These were identified as a voluntary set of recommendations were designed to put international obligations into verbal form to describe how SFM could be put into practice, but which had no legally binding status as regulations. 18 Through 1994 and early 1995 Canada successfully created an international framework for C&I for non-European temperate and boreal forests. At the outset, eight countries participated in the process (Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Russian Federation and the USA).

Certification, it has been argued, has had a more powerful influence on forest owners than government initiatives and has proved more successful in terms of protecting areas than public approaches, such as nature conservation agreements. It has been identified as consisting of a form of private governance with government, having the potential to complement, but not replace, public instruments, particularly since governments remain a key actor in both systems. Certification plays an important role in terms of government policy implementation because it not only affects the behaviour of certified forest owners but also influences large numbers of other forest owners.

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