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Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood Contesting New Modes of Governance Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood Contesting New Modes of Governance Edited by ALEJANDRO ESGUERRA, NICOLE HELMERICH and THOMAS RISSE GOVERNANCE AND LIMITED STATEHOOD Governance and Limited Statehood Series Editor Thomas Risse Director of the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science Freie Universität Berlin Germany Aim of the Series This ground-breaking monograph series showcases cutting edge research on the transformation of governance in countries with weak state institutions. Combing theoretically informed and empirically grounded scholarship, it challenges the conventional governance discourse which is biased towards modern developed nation states. Instead, the series focuses on governance in Africa, Asia and Latin America including transnational and trans-regional dimensions. Located at the intersection of global governance and international relations, on the one hand, and comparative politics, area studies, international law, history, and development studies, on the other, this innovative series helps to challenge fundamental assumptions about governance in the social sciences. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15020 Alejandro Esguerra • Nicole Helmerich • Thomas Risse Editors Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood Contesting New Modes of Governance Editors Alejandro Esguerra Nicole Helmerich University of Potsdam Hertie School of Governance Postdam , Germany Berlin , Germany Thomas Risse Freie Universität Berlin Berlin , Germany Governance and Limited Statehood ISBN 978-3-319-39870-9 ISBN 978-3-319-39871-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39871-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016956378 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfi lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specifi c statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the pub- lisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover image © Bill Frymire Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The origins of this book date back to a collaborative research project conducted by the Freie Universität Berlin, the London School of Economics, and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI)/Sciences Po, funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme, with the title: Sustainable development refl exive inputs to world organization. The individual chapters partly refl ect the research that was carried out at these institu- tions and partly go beyond the initial project. We, as editors, would like to express our gratitude to the authors of this volume for engaging in a lively conversation on the new modes of governance in areas of limited statehood. In addition, we would like to thank two research institutions at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Research Center 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” and the Kolleg-Forschergruppe “The Transformative Power of Europe” that were instrumental in realizing an authors’ workshop and in fi nalizing the manuscript. A number of colleagues and friends offered critical comments, among them Tobias Berger, Lea Hartung, Anne Koch and Alexandros Tokhi. Ruth Brown, Susan Berger, Susanna Fazio and Stefan Wiechmann supported us with language editing and layout. Also, we thank the Palgrave team for their fl exibility, help and guidance in seeing the project through. v CONTENTS 1 Introduction: Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood. Contesting New Modes of Governance 1 Alejandro Esguerra , Nicole Helmerich , and Thomas Risse Part 1 New Modes of Governance at the Transnational Level 23 2 “A Comment That Might Help Us to Move Along”: Brokers in Negotiation Systems 25 Alejandro Esguerra 3 Let’s Bargain! Setting Standards of Sustainable Biofuels 47 Philip Schleifer Part 2 Sustainability Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood 75 4 Between Global and Local Governance: The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund in China 77 Sander Chan , Ayşem Mert , and Philipp Pattberg vii viii CONTENTS 5 The State in Private Sustainability Governance: Contestation, Limited Statehood and Forest Certifi cation in Russia 105 Olga Malets 6 Governing Health and Safety in the Electronics Industry in Malaysia 127 Gale Raj-Reichert 7 Remnants of Hierarchy: The Limits on New Modes of Biodiversity Governance in the Dominican Republic 157 Casey Stevens 8 Bringing Climate Change Down to Earth: Climate Change Governance from the Bottom Up 179 Cordula Kropp and Jana Türk 9 Conclusion 211 Alejandro Esguerra Index 225 ABBREVIATIONS 2BSvs Biomass Biofuels Sustainability Voluntary Scheme CEPF Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund CI Conservation International CIPRA International Commission for the Protection of the Alps CWG Certifi cation Working Group DOSH Department of Occupational Safety and Health EPFL École Polytechnique Fédérale EU RED European Union Renewable Energy Directive EU RoHS European Union Directive the Restriction on the Use of Hazardous Substances FoE Friends of the Earth FSB Founding Steering Board FSC Forest Stewardship Council GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GHG Greenhouse Gas GMOs Genetically Modifi ed Organisms GSPD Global Sustainability Partnerships Database GVCs Global Value Chains INDCs Intended Nationally Determined Contributions IOs International Organizations IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ISCC International Sustainability and Carbon Certifi cation ISEAL International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling ITTO International Tropical Timber Organization ix x ABBREVIATIONS MNCs Multinational Corporations MOF Ministry of Finance MSIs Multistakeholder Initiatives MSW ‘The Mountains of Southwest China’ NGOs Non-governmental Organizations OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OHS Occupational Health and Safety OSHA Malaysian Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1994 PCB Printed Circuit Board PEFC Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certifi cation schemes PPPs Public-Private Partnerships RAN Rainforest Action Network RNCFC Russian National Council for Forest Certifi cation RSB Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels SB Steering Board SDGs Sustainable Development Goals SFM Sustainable Forest Management TFAP Tropical Forest Action Plan UNCSD United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change WGs Working Groups WSSD World Summit on Sustainable Development LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Sander Chan is a political scientist at the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). He is also a steering committee member of Galvanizing the Groundswell of Climate Actions, a series of open dialogues that aims to bring the groundswell of climate actions from cities, regions, companies and other groups to a higher level of scale and ambition. He specializes in global governance instruments applied to sustainable development and global climate change. His research areas include public-private partnerships, non- economic loss and damage, sustainable development, transnational linking frameworks, corporate voluntary environmental behavior and China’s sustainable development. Alejandro Esguerra is a postdoctoral researcher with the research group “Wicked Problems, Contested Administrations: Knowledge, Coordination, Strategy” (WIPCAD) at the University of Potsdam. Before joining WIPCAD, Alejandro was a researcher at the Free University Berlin, and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, a visiting researcher at Cornell University and a fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University Duisburg-Essen. Alejandro holds a PhD in International Relations from the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS), Free University Berlin. His publications are concerned with the role of knowledge in international relations theory, transnational private governance and epistemic authority in global environ- mental politics. His most recent research is on a micro-sociology of interna- tional relations and an edited volume on translation in world politics. xi xii LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Nicole Helmerich is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany. Prior to that, Nicole was a researcher at the Free University Berlin and a visiting researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle. Nicole completed her PhD in International Relations at the Berlin Graduate School
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