Certification schemes have emerged in recent years to become a significant and innovative
venue for standard setting and governance in the environmental realm. This review …

Forest certification is perhaps the best example of a voluntary governance structure for
addressing environmental spillovers. Competing forest certification schemes have evolved …

Over the past few years several private voluntary schemes have been developed worldwide
to address the environmental issues in the forest based industry. Using survey data, this …

Forest certification is a new policy mechanism for environmental governance; however,
academic perspectives differ about what benefits forest certification offers to landholders and …

To solve problems caused by conventional forest management, forest certification has
emerged as a driver of sustainable forest management. Several sustainable forest …

The paper examines the two forest certification schemes in Brazil, the Brazilian Program of
Forest Certification (Cerflor) and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), from the private …

Forest certification has become a strategic instrument for businesses, particularly for
accessing sensitive environmental markets and within sustainability commitments. This …

In an age of globalization, there is a growing perception that state regulatory instruments
may be an inadequate means of regulating firm conduct. Increasingly, scholars are …

Several forest certification schemes have become increasingly popular over the last few
decades as voluntary mechanisms to tack sustainability in the forest-based industry to an …

The impact of forest certification standards on firm management and market performance is
analysed in this paper, so as to isolate the influence of internal (moral and learning) and …