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Author:   Axel Marx ,  Miet Maertens ,  Johan Swinnen ,  Jan Wouters
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
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9781849808743

ISBN 10:   1849808740
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   31 August 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents: 1. Introduction: Private Standards and Global Governance Axel Marx, Miet Maertens, Johan Swinnen and Jan Wouters PART I: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE THROUGH PRIVATE STANDARDS: THE CASES OF NATURAL RESOURCES, FOOD AND LABOUR CONDITIONS 2. Governing Global Commons: The Public-Private Protection of Fish and Forests Frans van Waarden 3. Private Standards in Forestry: Assessing the Legitimacy and Effectiveness of the Forest Stewardship Council Axel Marx, Emilie Becault and Jan Wouters 4. Private Standards in Global Agri-food Chains Spencer Henson and John Humphrey 5. Market-driven Promotion of International Labour Standards in Southeast Asia: The Corporatization of Social Justice Ludo Cuyvers and Tim De Meyer PART II: PRIVATE FOOD STANDARDS AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES 6. Private Standards, Global Food Supply Chains and the Implications for Developing Countries Miet Maertens and Johan Swinnen 7. Globalization, Private Standards and Poverty: Evidence from Senegal Liesbeth Colen, Miet Maertens and Johan Swinnen PART III: PRIVATE FOOD STANDARDS AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: LEGAL PERSPECTIVES 8. Transnational Governance by Contract: Private Regulation and Contractual Networks in Food Safety Fabrizio Cafaggi 9. Food Safety-related Private Standards: The WTO Perspective Gretchen H. Stanton 10. Private Standards, Global Governance and International Trade: The Case of Global Food Safety Governance Jan Wouters, Axel Marx and Nicolas Hachez 11. Conclusion: Private Standards - a Global Governance Tool? Axel Marx, Miet Maertens, Johan Swinnen and Jan Wouters Index

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'This book draws out the profound implications and transformational dynamics of multi-level global governance of natural resources, labour standards and particularly food safety. The hybrid private-public governance of these supply chains has in some contexts made large western retailer groups more dominant regulators than states. Yet the new regulatory governance is more pluralistic in its flux than a shift from state to retailer hegemony. Governance by contracts of global sway more than government by statutes of states drives regulatory innovation. Legal entrepreneurs and model mongers of many stripes inspire this innovation. Political theory is yet to come to grips with the significance of the shifts this thoughtful collection ably traces.' - John Braithwaite, Australian National University 'This edited volume represents a major contribution to scholarship on the role in private standards in global governance. It brings together a wealth of important new research written by a distinguished group of scholars. It is noteworthy not only for the breadth and depth of its case-studies, but by its extensive analysis of the legal dimensions of private standard setting and enforcement.' - David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley, US

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Edited by Axel Marx, Deputy Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Miet Maertens, Johan Swinnen, KU Leuven and Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance and Director, Institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium

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