A Yale book that explores the ability of the marketplace to reverse global forest destruction has won the International Studies Association's 2005 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the best book of the year on environmental policy and politics.
Established in 1972, the award is presented annually by the association's environmental studies section to recognize books that make a "contribution to theory and interdisciplinarity, show rigor and coherence in research and writing, and offer accessibility and practical relevance."
The winning book, "Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority," was co-authored by Benjamin Cashore, associate professor of sustainable forest policy at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES); F&ES doctoral student Graeme Auld; and Deanna Newsom of the Rainforest Alliance. It was published in 2004 by Yale University Press.
"Governing Through Markets" analyzes a 10-year, multimillion-dollar effort by non-governmental organizations to transform global environmental governance by embracing marketplace incentives, rather than governments, for rule-making authority. The authors developed an innovative framework designed to trace the competition for legitimacy between the Forest Stewardship Council certification program, which has widespread support from many of the world's leading environmental groups, and alternative programs initiated by industry and forest owner associations.
The authors uncovered significant differences across several industrialized nations both in support for forest certification programs and in what was required of companies to be recognized as environmentally and socially responsible. Their analysis, they argue, points to the need to conduct systematic research into the effects of different approaches in improving forest ecosystem structure and function, and the communities that depend on them.
The selection committee lauded "Governing Through Markets" for its "excellent empirical research" and for "breaking new ground on one of the hottest topics in both the practice of and scholarship on international environmental politics."
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