Praise for the Book

"...excellent empirical research....this one breaks new ground on one of the hottest topics in both the practice of, and scholarship on, international environmental politics.”

Sprout awards committee, International Studies Association

"the leading analysis, from a social science perspective, on the most important trend in forest policy."

—George Hoberg
Professor and Head
Department of Forest Resources Management
University of British Columbia

"...those who promote or support the FSC or one of its competitor schemes will ignore the book at their peril... "

—Dr. David Humphreys
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.

"An excellent book that will make a significant contribution to an important emerging area of research."

—Aseem Prakash, University of Washington
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science,
University of Washington

"...a rich theoretical and empirical contribution to our understanding of private environmental governance in the forestry sector in several industrial countries. I am aware of no other published work that presents such an exhaustive account and analysis of private environmental governance, let alone in this critical sector. It should attract considerable interest among those interested in environmental management and its relationship to corporate responsibility "

—Prof. David Vogel, Haas School of Business, University of California,
Berkeley

"This book stands not just as a contribution to the important contemporary problem of forest certification, but adds to the corpus of scholarly political analysis of forestry issues. As such, I suspect it will command the attention of students and scholars in this field for some time."

—Clark S. Binkley, Ph.D.
Managing Director and CIO
Hancock Timber Resource Group
Boston, MA

"Valuable and full of perceptive insights. Cashore and colleagues have made a real contribution to the debate."

—Chris Elliott, World Wildlife Fund International

“Under what conditions do markets effectively govern the environmental practices of firms? When, more narrowly, does certification promote more sustainable forest practices? Governing Through Markets is essential reading for all future analysis of these increasingly central questions in the literature on global environmental governance.”

—Peter Dauvergne
Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics
Director, Environment Program, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of British Columbia

"This work is important in that it tells those following the drama what to look for as the play unfolds."

—John Gordon
Pinchot Professor emeritus
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale University and Interforest.

"Cashore, Auld and Newsom provide analysis of case studies on FSC and forest certification in the US, Canada (BC), UK, Germany and Sweden. National stakeholder groups may find it strategically useful to analyze their circumstances according to the criteria identified by this study"

—Gemma Boetekees
FSC Europe Director

“The book is a wonderful illustration of the immense value of bringing the academic and analytic resources of a university of Yale's stature to bear on an issue of great social, political, and environmental importance"

—Stephen Heintz
President
Rockefeller Brothers Fund