Global Forest Governance and Climate Change

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Forest Governance ◽  
Global Forest Governance

scholarly journals Global forest governance and sustainable development: reflections on the life and times of John Spears

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-154
Author(s):  
H. Gregersen ◽  
P.A. Dewees ◽  
H. El-Lakany ◽  
B. Singer ◽  
J. Blaser
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Governance ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Global Forest Governance

The late John Spears' international career coincided with the emergence of global forest governance. His contributions at the World Bank, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and at the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development (WCFSD) are characterized by an unfailing call to integrate objectives towards forests and trees into broader development goals and particularly to tap the power of forests and trees to contribute to poverty alleviation.<br/> This paper describes the evolution of global forest governance since the early 1970s, especially focusing on the period when Spears was highly influential in the global forest policy debate. It gives an emphasis to the efforts the international community has made in adopting a more comprehensive perspective toward the role of forests in sustainable development. Despite this, global forest governance has recently tended to focus more narrowly on climate change at the expense of attention to the problem of poverty. While climate change is a major priority in its own right, we argue that this limited perspective needs to be overcome to unlock the full potential of forests in sustainable development, aimed at combating poverty.

Life Protective or Carcinogenic Challenge? Global Forests Governance under Advanced Capitalism

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Forest Governance ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
Advanced Capitalism ◽  
Forest Use ◽  
Global Forest Governance

John McMurtry and David Korten argue that by systemically depleting its social and environmental hosts, global capitalism has reached a carcinogenic stage. While there are life-protective forces in global governance, many are rendered ineffective by the routine functioning of global capitalism. The article applies this analysis to forests at two levels: the global forests regime (that is, public international law that seeks to govern forest use); and the broader structures and processes of global governance that affect forest use. The set of interactions between the two constitutes global forest governance. It is argued that in global forest governance carcinogenic life degrading forces prevail over healthy life conservation forces. The result is worldwide forest degradation. In this respect global forest governance represents a pathogenic invasion of the world's forests.

Private Rule-Making and the Politics of Accountability: Analyzing Global Forest Governance

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sander Chan ◽  
Philipp Pattberg
Keyword(s):  
Power Sharing ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Forest Governance ◽  
Forest Stewardship Council ◽  
Global Environmental Politics ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Forest Stewardship ◽  
Private Certification ◽  
Rule Making ◽  
Global Forest Governance

Private rule-making features prominently on the research agenda of International Relations scholars today. The field of forest politics in particular has proven to be a lively arena for experimenting with novel policies (for example, third party certification and labeling) and procedures (for example, power-sharing in stakeholder bodies). This article focuses on the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), one of the earliest and most institutionalized private certification schemes, in order to assess the role and relevance of accountability politics for global forest governance. Specifically, we ask three related questions: first, what role did a deepening accountability crisis and the resulting reconstruction of accountability play in the formation of the FSC? Second, how is accountability organized within the FSC? And finally, what accountability outcomes emerge as a result of the FSC's policies and operations? The article closes with some reflections about the limitations of private-based accountability in global environmental politics.

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