Benjamin Cashore

TL;DR: The authors developed an analytical framework designed to understand better the emergence of non-state market-driven (NSMD) governance systems and the conditions under which they may gain authority to create policy, and argued that such a framework is needed to assess whether these new private governance systems might ultimately challenge existing state-centered authority and public policy-making processes.

TL;DR: It is argued that an “applied forward reasoning” approach is better suited for social scientists seeking to address climate change, which is characterized as a “super wicked” problem comprising four key features: time is running out, those who cause the problem also seek to provide a solution, the central authority needed to address it is weak or non-existent, and policy responses discount the future irrationally.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the politics behind forest certification in five countries and discuss the impact the Forest Stewardship Council has had on other certification programmes, and assess the ability of private forest certification to address global forest deterioration.

TL;DR: The last half decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence of attention among practitioners and scholars to understand the ability of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to address environmental and social problems as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop an analytical framework and a preliminary set of causal propositions to explicate whether and how political legitimacy might be achieved in non-state market driven governance systems.