Can legality verification rescue global forest governance?

Benjamin Cashore and Michael W. Stone

Forest Policy and Economics, 2012, vol. 18, issue C, 13-22

Abstract: One of the most important and pressing questions of our times is to understand better what types of governance arrangements at the local, domestic and international levels, as well as innovative non-state market driven mechanisms that might best address fundamentally important but seemingly intractable environmental, economic and social challenges. This paper sheds light on these questions by assessing the emergence of legality verification as a means to address global forest degradation. Legality verification is puzzling because it presents a relatively modest solution compared to previous efforts to build a legally binding global forest convention, global certification systems or domestic focused “good forest governance” initiatives, and yet it is garnering the interest of wide ranging and diverse global coalitions within developed and developing countries.

Keywords: Forest governance; Market mechanisms; Legality verification; Forest certification; Illegal logging; Institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2011.12.005

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