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

"A superb extended case study of the development of the Forest Stewardship Council's British Columbia forestry certification standard. This book's multi-level, interdisciplinary comparative analysis yields a rich set of insights that challenge many conventional regulatory paradigms. - Michael Trebilcock, co-author of The Regulation of International Trade"