State actors and international forest certification policy: Coalitions behind FSC and PEFC in federal Argentina

Land Use Policy

Volumn 52, Issue , 2016, Pages 23-29

  Burns, Sarah L ^a,b   Yapura, Pablo F ^b   Giessen, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS Y FORESTALES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bureaucratic politics; Coalitions; Federalism; International forest regime; Private actors; Transnational regimes

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; CERTIFICATION; FEDERAL SYSTEM; FORESTRY POLICY; STANDARD (REGULATION);

ARGENTINA;

EID: 84949908329     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.12.005     Document Type: Article

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