-fertilization, and enhancing accountability. In this article, we analyze the EU's Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT … contentious transnational environmental issues like forest governance where there is no global hegemon to impose a single set of …The emerging transnational timber legality assurance regime comprises a set of interrelated policy instruments, both …

studies two of these regimes, the European Union's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) action plan and its …Deforestation and forest degradation remain high worldwide, and one of the dominant underlying causes for this forest … forest degradation (REDD+). The interactions between these two international policies at the national level, namely in Ghana …

embraced private standards, usually with some form of third party certification employed to verify adherence to those standards …

impinged on virtually every aspect of food and agriculture. Moreover, most nation-states and many international governance …

international certification of organic products. Both governance structures, between organic orange production and the processing …This paper compares governance structures in the Brazilian citrus production that appeared with the process of … plant, are analyzed through a study case methodology. These two governance structures are different from the traditional …

The objective of this paper is to examine value chain governance through case studies of four different certified value … involvement in value-based certification schemes (Ethical Trading Initiative, Fairtrade, Organic and Rainforest Alliance) on … certified producers in Tanzania. Each of these certification schemes makes claims on specific values that it is instilling in a …

Multilayered conformity-assessment systems (MCASs) are becoming an increasingly prominent governance mechanism in food … tolerance standards: organics (i.e., zero-synthetic chemicals). The focus is on the governance of organic standards in the rural … MCASs to ensure standardized food governance globally. …

European wide PAN Parks certification seems not to be supporting integrated objectives from the point of view of traditional … nature users in Oulanka National Park, Finland. We compared the actions and responses of the certification, park management … threats posed by standardisation practises of the certification, which emphasises conservation of wilderness with 'sell nature …