Diffusion of Public and Private Sustainability Regulations

The Responses of Follower Countries

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvEtsuyo Michida,John Humphrey,David Vogel

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This book focuses on the spread of public and private environmental and food safety regulations from Europe and North America to Asia and Africa. It explores the growth of policy diffusion and standard alignment on sustainability observed in non-Western follower countries in a globalizing world.The book examines the role of both developed and developing non-Western countries as followers that adopt food safety, environmental and sustainability policies under different conditions to those of the originating country. Chapters analyse non-state forms of transnational regulation, and how these have diffused to non-Western countries. They showcase how standard alignment efforts lead to multiple localized regulations determined by specific circumstances, highlighting the dilemma in designing policy in an era of globalization.The use of in-depth case studies by renowned experts will make this book an important read for political science and economics scholars interested in trade, standards and international regulation. Policy-makers concerned with issues of sustainability in follower countries will find the book’s lessons on how to adapt policies helpful.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-02-12
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781800880931

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Contents:1. Introduction to The Diffusion of Public and PrivateSustainability Regulations: The Responses of Follower Countries 1Etsuyo Michida, John Humphrey and David Vogel2. National palm oil standards in Asia: motivations andimpacts on trade and rural development 17John Humphrey and Etsuyo Michida3. Factors explaining the adoption of green building ratingsystems at the country level: competition of LEED andother green building rating systems 47Kenji Shiraishi and Hajime Iseda4. Diffusion mechanisms for regulating fishery products: thecases of Tanzania, Madagascar, and Mauritius 75Akiko Yanai5. Seeking the similarities while keeping the differences: thedevelopment of emissions trading schemes in northeast Asia 99Fang-Ting Cheng6. The diffusion of energy efficiency policies in Asiancountries: country-specific drivers of policy followers 120Michikazu KojimaIndex 137

‘The Diffusion of Public and Private Sustainability Regulation sheds much needed light on the domestic processes in Asian and African countries that adopt policies originating from elsewhere. Policy diffusion processes are an essential part of global environmental governance but we still don’t fully understand how, in particular, non-Western countries translate and adopt environmental regulations that originate from Western countries. This book is a major contribution in this regard.’