Christine Overdevest and Jonathan Zeitlin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198703143
- eISBN:
- 9780191772450
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703143.003.0010
- Subject:
- Business and Management, International Business
Transnational governance initiatives increasingly face the problem of regime complexity in which a proliferation of regulatory schemes operate in the same policy domain, supported by varying ...
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Transnational governance initiatives increasingly face the problem of regime complexity in which a proliferation of regulatory schemes operate in the same policy domain, supported by varying combinations of public and private actors. The literature suggests that such regime complexity can lead to forum-shopping and other self-interested strategies which undermine the effectiveness of transnational regulation. Based on the design principles of experimentalist governance, this chapter identifies a variety of pathways and mechanisms which promote productive interactions in regime complexes. We use the case of the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) initiative, interacting with private certification schemes and public legal timber regulations, including those of third countries such as the US and China, to demonstrate how an increasingly comprehensive transnational regime can be assembled by linking together distinct components of a regime complex.Less
Transnational governance initiatives increasingly face the problem of regime complexity in which a proliferation of regulatory schemes operate in the same policy domain, supported by varying combinations of public and private actors. The literature suggests that such regime complexity can lead to forum-shopping and other self-interested strategies which undermine the effectiveness of transnational regulation. Based on the design principles of experimentalist governance, this chapter identifies a variety of pathways and mechanisms which promote productive interactions in regime complexes. We use the case of the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) initiative, interacting with private certification schemes and public legal timber regulations, including those of third countries such as the US and China, to demonstrate how an increasingly comprehensive transnational regime can be assembled by linking together distinct components of a regime complex.
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226322667
- eISBN:
- 9780226024134
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226024134.003.0005
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
This chapter highlights several Scottish forest history themes that have modern echoes. Through a discussion of the Caledonian forests of Scotland, the chapter explores the idea of a “primal forest” ...
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This chapter highlights several Scottish forest history themes that have modern echoes. Through a discussion of the Caledonian forests of Scotland, the chapter explores the idea of a “primal forest” and its conjectural histories through: (1) their supposed destruction by either by Roman legions (colonialism) or peasants; (2) the idea that restoration managed by aristocrats and natural historians would return Scotland's forests to their ancient and authentic state; (3) that forests embodied a moral order; and (4) competing narratives of nature management: On the one side, unstable, yet iconic landscapes that needed to be managed by the crown, aristocrats, or natural historians, on the other the self-regulating action of harmonious and equitable trade in timber that leached landscapes of their symbolic content and treated them as pure commodities, ideally affected through markets. Adam Smith rejected the symbolism of landscapes for a world of unsentimental exchange and mutual advantage, and lauded the international markets that brought Norwegian woods for the construction of Edinburgh.Less
This chapter highlights several Scottish forest history themes that have modern echoes. Through a discussion of the Caledonian forests of Scotland, the chapter explores the idea of a “primal forest” and its conjectural histories through: (1) their supposed destruction by either by Roman legions (colonialism) or peasants; (2) the idea that restoration managed by aristocrats and natural historians would return Scotland's forests to their ancient and authentic state; (3) that forests embodied a moral order; and (4) competing narratives of nature management: On the one side, unstable, yet iconic landscapes that needed to be managed by the crown, aristocrats, or natural historians, on the other the self-regulating action of harmonious and equitable trade in timber that leached landscapes of their symbolic content and treated them as pure commodities, ideally affected through markets. Adam Smith rejected the symbolism of landscapes for a world of unsentimental exchange and mutual advantage, and lauded the international markets that brought Norwegian woods for the construction of Edinburgh.
