Diffusion of Public and Private Sustainability Regulations

Edited by Etsuyo Michida, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO, Japan, John Humphrey, Honorary Visiting Professor, Department of Strategy and Marketing, University of Sussex Business School, Brighton, UK and David Vogel, Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, US

• 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.’