Setting the Standard

Chris Tollefson is a professor of law at theUniversity of Victoria. Fred Gale is a senior lecturerin the School of Government at the University of Tasmania.David Haley is a professor emeritus of the Departmentof Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia.

• 1 IntroductionPart 1: Developing the FSC-BC Standard2 The Rise and Rise of Forest Certification3 The BC Forest Policy Context4 Hard Bargaining: Negotiating an FSC Standard for British Columbia5 Beyond British Columbia: Standards Development in OtherJurisdictionsPart 2: Analyzing the FSC-BC Standard6 Tenure, Use Rights, and Benefits from the Forest 7 Community and Workers' Rights8 Indigenous Peoples' Rights9 Environmental ValuesPart 3: Governance within and beyond the FSC System10 A Political Network Analysis of FSC Governance11 A Regulatory Analysis of FSC Governance12 An Institutional Analysis of FSC GovernancePart 4: Conclusions13 Theorizing Regulation and Governance within and beyond theFSC14 Reflections on the Nature and Significance of the FSC-BC CaseAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

"This book makes an absolutely essential contribution to the literature on voluntary environmental standards and environmental certification schemes by providing the sort of detailed, contextual, and comparative empirical account of standard-setting that is fundamental to advance our understanding of the phenomenon of contemporary governance. - Stepan Wood, coeditor of Environmental Law for Sustainability A powerful and well researched account of the emergence of forest certification in the British Columbia forest sector. - Benjamin Cashore, co-author of Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority"