From governance to government: The strengthened role of state bureaucracies in forest and agricultural certification

Policy and Society

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 71-89

  Giessen, Lukas ^a   Burns, Sarah ^a,b   Sahide, Muhammad Alif K ^a,c   Wibowo, Agung ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS Y FORESTALES   (Argentina)

^c HASANUDDIN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALANGKA RAYA   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Argentina; Bureaucratic politics; FLEGT; Forest certification; FSC; Illegal logging; Indonesia; International regimes; ISPO; PEFC; Power struggle; RSPO; Rubber certification; SVLK; Transnational regimes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960298316     PISSN: 14494035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polsoc.2016.02.001     Document Type: Article

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