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When Transnational Standards Hit the Ground: Domestic Regulations, Compliance Assessment and Forest Certification in Russia

dc.contributor.authorMalets, O.
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-23T18:56:23Z
dc.date.available2022-01-23T18:56:23Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://open.fsc.org/handle/resource/765
dc.languageen
dc.rightsPaywalled content
dc.titleWhen Transnational Standards Hit the Ground: Domestic Regulations, Compliance Assessment and Forest Certification in Russiaen
dcterms.abstractThe article examines how the interplay between domestic regulations and third-party compliance assessment shapes the effects of transnational non-state environmental certification and labelling, which has become an important part of the global environmental and natural resource governance. Based on an extensive qualitative case study of forest certification by the Forest Stewardship Council in Russia, the article argues, first, that Russia's extensive domestic regulations have restricted the impact of forest certification on forest companies because of significant contradictions between national forest law and global certification standards and the poorly implemented ongoing reform of the national forest governance. Second, the article shows that in this challenging environment, the ability of third-party certifiers to enforce and control the implementation of certification standards is critical, but has been increasingly undermined by the emerging price competition between certifiers, the resulting lack of resources for proper control and the diminishing capacity of environmental stakeholders to monitor certifiers effectively.en
dcterms.issued2014
dcterms.typeJournal Article
dspace.entity.typePublication
fsc.evidenceCategoryFSC effect-related studies
fsc.focus.forestType(not yet curated)
fsc.focus.forestZone(not yet curated)
fsc.focus.sustainDimension3. Social
fsc.focus.tenureManagement(not yet curated)
fsc.focus.tenureOwnership(not yet curated)
fsc.issue.environmental(not yet curated)
fsc.topic.environmental(not yet curated)
fscdoc.hashidden.adminyes
fscdoc.hashidden.useryes
is.coverage.countryRussian Federation
is.coverage.regionEurope
is.evaluation.collection(not yet curated)
is.evidenceSubType(not yet curated)
is.evidenceTypeTheoretical analysis
is.extent.number3
is.extent.pages332-359
is.extent.volume17
is.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1523908x.2014.947922
is.identifier.fscdoihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34800/fsc-international481
is.journalNameJournal of Environmental Policy and Planning
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