My research projects address the issue of sustainable forest management (SFM) and the problems and opportunities in achieving this goal. As a political scientist by training, I consciously seek out, and apply, different disciplinary lenses to the fundamental problem of achieving a sustainable society. Because SFM is multi-faceted and poses a challenge to every level of decision-making, I have applied my substantive research agenda broadly – exploring international rule-making evelopment, global economic dynamics, domestic environmental forestry policy-making issues, and firm-level sustainability initiatives. This broad research agenda has led me to develop an ambitious research program on forest certification as a key example of non-state market driven governance emerging to address a range of environmental problems domestically and internationally. The following outlines my four key research paths

1. Forest Certification and the Privatization of Environmental Governance
2. Explaining Cross-country Divergence in Environmental Forestry Policy Responses
3. Firm Behavior Toward Voluntary and Market-based Policy Instruments
4. Globalization, Transnational Networks and Legitimate Authority

These links detail each approach and list key publications that relate to each path. (We list publications in more than one section when they overlap pathways).