Publication: Private Governance and the South: lessons from global forest politics
Private Governance and the South: lessons from global forest politics
| dc.contributor.author | Pattberg, P. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-23T18:58:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-23T18:58:02Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://open.fsc.org/handle/resource/1015 | |
| dc.title | Private Governance and the South: lessons from global forest politics | en |
| dcterms.abstract | Private governance beyond the state is emerging as a prominent debate in International Relations, focusing on the activities of private non-state actors and the influences of private rules and standards. However, the conceptual framework of governance has until recently been employed predominantly with reference to the OECD world. Despite this restricted view, a growing number of processes, organisations and institutions are beginning to affect developing countries and new institutional settings open up avenues of influence for actors from the South. In the context of a lively debate about global governance and the transformation of world politics, this article asks: what influences does private governance have on developing countries, their societies and their economies? What influence do southern actors have in and through private governance arrangements? I argue that we can assess the specific impacts of private governance, as well as potential avenues of influence for actors from the South, with regard to three functional pathways: governance through regulation, governance through learning and discourse, and governance through integration. Focusing in particular on private governance in the global forest arena, I argue that, while southern actors have not benefited so much economically from private certification schemes, they have been partially empowered through cognitive and integrative processes of governance. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Public | |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open access | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Pattberg, P., 2006. Private governance and the South: lessons from global forest politics. Third World Quarterly, 27(4), pp.579-593 | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2006 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.license | Copyrighted; all rights reserved | en |
| dcterms.type | Journal Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| fsc.evidenceCategory | FSC impact-related | |
| fsc.focus.sustainDimension | Social | |
| fsc.focus.sustainDimension | Economic | |
| fsc.focus.sustainDimension | Political, legal, systemic | |
| fsc.issue.economic | Benefits, motivations, reasons for certification | |
| fsc.issue.economic | Costs, obstacles, barriers to certification | |
| fsc.subject | Forest certification | |
| fsc.subject | Forests | |
| fsc.subject | Certified wood products | |
| fsc.subject | Certification | |
| fsc.subject | Price premium | |
| fsc.subject | Forest economics | |
| fsc.subject | Forest management | |
| fsc.subject | Marketing | |
| fsc.subject | Literature review | |
| fsc.subject | Public Image | |
| fsc.topic.economic | Price premium | |
| fsc.topic.political | Governance | |
| fsc.topic.social | Consultation, participation, empowerment | |
| is.availability.fullText | Full text available | |
| is.contributor.funderType | Unreported | |
| is.contributor.member | Forest Stewardship Council | |
| is.evaluation.collection | Government/census data | |
| is.evaluation.counterfacts | No | |
| is.evaluation.dataSource | Data by scheme / tool under evaluation | |
| is.evaluation.notes | The author examines Forest certification, with a focus on FSC, as a non-state market regulation in Global South. On the one hand the influence of private governance on developing countries, on the other hand the influence of "Southern" actors on and through the the private governance schemes. It is concluded that even if the economic benefits are low (what is stated in the paper. The author analyzed a negative cost-benefit relation.) in the developing countries, an empowerment takes place when private governance open up the possibilities for individual actors and groups to gain influence. | |
| is.evaluation.quotes | For southern actors the FSC network is a relatively successful source of empowerment. | |
| is.evaluation.quotes | the integration of international norms via the FSC may lead tobetter enforcement on the national level. Second, the multi-stakeholder ideaembedded in the FSC may empower hitherto marginalised actors in national debates and thereby strengthen sustainable forest management in nationalpolicies. | |
| is.evaluation.quotes | the FSC had quite a significant impact on small-scale communityforestry, where it shifted perceptions of forestry towards more scientific viewsand thus supported ongoing trends towards convergence in global forestpractices. | |
| is.evaluation.quotes | The analysis has shown that the costs of certification have been shiftedto the producers, while the initially expected benefit of premium prices forcertified timber has only emerged sporadically. | |
| is.evaluation.quotes | Learning and knowledge brokering have been presented as a secondpossible function of private governance. The analysis suggests that learning processes have occurred within the FSC network and, as a result, havepotentially empowered NGOs from the South. In particular, environmentaland social organisations have benefited from exchange over new strategiesand access to new forums. | |
| is.evaluation.quotes | The third functional pathway through which private governance is realisedis integration. With regard to the FSC, two tentative conclusions can bedrawn. First, the integration of international norms via the FSC may lead tobetter enforcement on the national level. Second, the multi-stakeholder ideaembedded in the FSC may empower hitherto marginalised actors in nationaldebates and thereby strengthen sustainable forest management in nationalpolicies. | |
| is.evidenceSubType | Synthesis paper - literature review | |
| is.evidenceType | Synthesis paper | |
| is.extent.number | 4 | |
| is.extent.pages | 579-593 | |
| is.extent.volume | 27 | |
| is.focus.products | Forestry products | |
| is.focus.sdg | SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals | |
| is.focus.sectors | Agriculture | |
| is.focus.sectors | Forestry | |
| is.focus.sustainDimension | Social | |
| is.focus.sustainDimension | Economic | |
| is.focus.sustainIssue | Forests and other ecosystems | |
| is.focus.sustainLens | Transnational governance | |
| is.focus.sustainOutcome | Governance mechanisms | |
| is.focus.systemElement | MandE outcomes and impacts | |
| is.focus.systemElement | MandE performance monitoring | |
| is.identifier.code | Impacts | |
| is.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590600720769 | |
| is.identifier.fscdoi | http://dx.doi.org/10.34800/fsc-international752 | |
| is.identifier.schemeName | Forest Stewardship Council | |
| is.identifier.schemeType | Voluntary Sustainability Standards | |
| is.item.reviewStatus | Peer reviewed | |
| is.journalName | Third World Quaterly |