Private Governance and Public Authority

Stefan Renckens is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department of the University of Toronto. His research examines the political economy of transnational private sustainability governance and public-private governance interactions. He holds a Ph.D. in Global Environmental Politics from Yale University. His Ph.D. dissertation received the American Political Science Association's best dissertation award in Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics (2015). He also holds master's degrees in political science, economic policy, and conflict and peace studies. He has received research grants from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the US National Science Foundation, and the Research Foundation Flanders.

• 1. Introduction: public-private governance interactions; 2. Explaining public interventions in private governance; 3. Organic agriculture; 4. Biofuels; 5. Fair trade; 6. Fisheries; 7. Evaluating public interventions in private governance; Appendix. Interviews; Endnotes; References; Index.

'Stefan Rencken's ground-breaking analysis is the most comprehensive yet of why and when governments intervene in private environmental governance. Theoretically rich, and offering deep insights into regulatory interventions in fisheries, organic agriculture, biofuels, and fair trade schemes in the European Union, it is a seminal investigation of this increasingly important trend in global governance.' Peter Dauvergne, Professor of International Relations, University of British Columbia