Ben Cashore
Professor, Environmental Policy and Governance and Political Science; director, Program on Forest Policy and Governance
Publications
2009
Journal Article
McDermott, C, Cashore, B and Kanowski, P. “Setting the Bar: An International Comparison of Public and Private Forest Policy Specifications and Implications for Explaining Policy Trends.” Journal of Integrative Environmental Science 6.3 (2009): 217-237. DOI: 10.1080/19438150903090533
Conference Paper
Kelly Levin, Steven Bernstein, Benjamin Cashore and Graeme Auld. “Playing it Forward: Path Dependency, Progressive Incrementalism and the “Super Wicked” Problem of Global Climate Change.” March 2009.
Journal Article - In Press
Kelly Levin, Benjamin Cashore, and Jonathan Koppell. “Can Non-State Certification Systems bolster State-Centered Efforts to promote Sustainable Development through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)?.” Wake Forest Law Review (2009).
Working Paper
Kelly Levin, Graeme Auld, Laura Bozzi, Benjamin Cashore, Kelly Levin and Stefan Renckens. “Can Non-State Governance ‘Ratchet-up’ Global Standards? Assessing their Indirect Effects and Evolutionary Potential.” 2009.
Book Chapter
Auld, G, Balboa, C, Bernstein, S and Cashore, B. “Chapter: The Emergence of Non-State Market Driven (NSMD) Global Environmental Governance: A Cross Sectoral Assessment.” Governing the Environment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.. Ed. Delmas and Young Cambridge University Press, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Book Chapter - Forthcoming
Graeme Auld, Cristina Balboa, Steven Bernstein and Benjamin Cashore. “The Emergence of Non-state Market Driven (NSMD) Global Environmental Governance: A Cross Sectoral Assessment.” Governing the Environment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Delmas and Young Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
2008
Conference Paper
Ben Cashore. “Towards a Better World?.” October 2008.
Journal Article
Constance McDermott, Emily Noah and Benjamin Cashore. “Differences that Matter?: A Framework for Comparing Environmental Certification Standards and Government Policies.” Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 10.1 (2008): 47 - 70. DOI: 10.1080/15239080701652607
Book Chapter
Steven Bernstein and Benjamin Cashore. “Chapter Seven: The Two-level logic of Non-State Market Driven Governance.” Changing Patterns of Authority in the Global Political Economy: Volume II: New Actors and Forms of Regulation. Ed. Volker Rittberger, Martin Nettesheim and Carmen Huckel New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Journal Article - In Progress
Kelly Levin, Steven Bernstein, Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld. “Playing it Forward: Path Dependency, Progressive Incrementalism, and
the “Super Wicked” Problem of Global Climate Change.” (2008).
Journal Article
Kelly Levin, Constance McDermott and Benjamin Cashore. “The Climate Regime as Global Forest Governance: Can Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) Initiatives Pass a ‘Dual Effectiveness’ Test?.” International Forestry Review (2008).
Unpublished Work
Graeme Auld, Steven Bernstein and Benjamin Cashore. “The New Corporate Social Responsibility.” 2008.
2007
Journal Article
Benjamin Cashore and Michael Howlett. “Punctuating Which Equilibrium Understanding Thermostatic Policy Dynamics in Pacific Northwest Forestry.” American Journal of Political Science 51.3 (2007): 532-551. DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2007.00266.x
Journal Article
Benjamin Cashore, Beth Egan, Graeme Auld and Deanna Newsom. “Revising Theories of Non-state Market Driven (NSMD) Governance: Lessons from the Finnish Forest Certification Experience.” Global Environmental Politics 7.1 (2007): 1-44. DOI: 10.1162/glep.2007.7.1.1
Journal Article
Steven Bernstein, Benjamin Cashore. “Can non-state global governance be legitimate? An analytical framework.” Regulation & Governance 1.4 (2007): 1-25. DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2007.00021.x
Journal Article
Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld, Steven Bernstein and Constance McDermott. “Can Non-state Governance “Ratchet Up” Global Environmental Standards? Lessons from the Forest Sector.” Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (RECIEL) 15.2 (2007): 158-172. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9388.2007.00560.x
2006
Journal Article
Benjamin Cashore, Fred Gale, Errol Meidinger and Deanna Newsom. “Forest Certification in Developing and Transitioning Countries: Part of a Sustainable Future?.” Environment 48.9 (2006): 6-25.
Journal Article
Deanna Newsom, Volker Bahn, Benjamin Cashore. “Does Forest Certification Matter? An Analysis of Operation-Level Changes Required During the SmartWood Certification Process.” US. Journal of Forest Policy and Economics 9.3 (2006): 197-208. DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2005.06.007
Journal Article
Erika N. Sasser, Aseem Prakash, Benjamin Cashore and Graeme Auld. “Direct Targeting as an NGO Political Strategy: Examining Private Authority Regimes in the Forestry Sector.” Business and Politics 8.3 (2006): Article 1. DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1163
Report
Eric Hansen, Rick Fletcher, Benjamin Cashore and Constance McDermott. “Forest Certification in North America.” 2006.
Book Chapter
Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld, Deanna Newsom, and Elizabeth Egan. “The Emergence of Non-State Environmental Governance in European and North American Forest Sectors.” Enlarging TransAtlantic Relations: Environment, Agriculture, and Trade Politics across the Atlantic. Ed. Schreurs, VanDeveer, and Selin, (eds) Cambridge University Press, 2006.
2005
Working Paper
Constance McDermott, Emily Noah and Benjamin Cashore. “Differences That "Matter"? Identifying Analytical Challenges in the Comparison of Forest Certification Standards.” Working Paper Working Paper, December 2005, 32.
Book Chapter
Convening lead authors: Peter Glück, Jeremy Rayner and Benjamin Cashore. “Change in the Governance of Forest Resources.” Forests in the Global Balance – Changing Paradigms. Ed. Gerardo Mery, Rene Alfaro, Markku Kanninen and Maxim Labovikov (eds.) 2005. 51-74.
2004
Journal Article
Cashore, Benjamin; Auld, Graeme; and Newsom, Deanna. “The United States’ Race to Certify Sustainable Forestry: Non-State Environmental Governance and the Competition for Policy-Making Authority.” Business and Politics 5.3 (2004): Article 1. DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1076
Book
Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld and Deanna Newsom. Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Journal Article
Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld and Deanna Newsom. “Legitimizing Political Consumerism: The Case of Forest Certification in North America and Europe.” Russian Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology (2004).
Book Chapter
Benjamin Cashore and Steven Bernstein. “Non-State Global Governance: Is Forest Certification a Legitimate Alternative to a Global Forest Convention?.” Hard Choices, Soft Law: Combining Trade, Environment, and Social Cohesion in Global Governance. Ed. John Kirton and Michael Trebilcock (eds.) Ashgate Press, 2004.
2003
Journal Article
Benjamin Cashore and Graeme Auld. “British Columbia’s Environmental Forest Policy Record in Perspective.” Journal of Forestry 101.8 (2003): 42-47. DOI: 10.1016/S1389-9341(02)00060-6
Journal Article
Benjamin Cashore and James Lawson. “Comparing Forest Certification Experiences in the US Northeast and the Canadian Maritimes.” Canadian-American Public Policy (2003).
Journal Article
Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld and Deanna Newsom. “Forest Certification (Eco-labeling) Programs and their Policy-Making Authority: Explaining Divergence Among North American and European Case Studies.” Journal of Forest Policy and Economics 5.3 (2003): 225-247.
2002
Journal Article
Benjamin Cashore. “Legitimacy and the Privatization of Environmental Governance: How Non State Market-Driven (NSMD) Governance Systems Gain Rule Making Authority.” Governance 15.4 (2002): 503-529. DOI: 10.1111/1468-0491.00199
Book Chapter
Benjamin Cashore with Jamie Lawson. “Company Choices on Sustainable Forestry Forest Certification: The Case of JD Irving, Ltd..” Forest Policy for Private Forestry. Ed. Accepted through a blind peer review process established by editors CAB International, 2002.
Book Chapter
Benjamin Cashore with Deanna Newsom, Graeme Auld, and Jim Granskog. “Forest Certification in the Heart of Dixie: A Survey of Alabama Landowners.” Forest Policy for Private Forestry. Ed. Accepted through a blind peer review process established by editors CAB International, 2002.
Book Chapter
Benjamin Cashore. “Perspectives on Forest Certification as a Policy Process: Reflections on Elliott and Schlaepfer’s Use of the Advocacy Coalition Framework.” Social and Political Dimensions of Forest Certification. Ed. Christopher Elliott, Errol Meidinger, and Gerhard Oesten (editors) Remagen-Oberwinter, Germany: Forstbuch, 2002.
Book Chapter
Benjamin Cashore with Graeme Auld and Deanna Newsom. “Perspectives on Forest Certification: A Survey Examining Differences Among the US Forest Sectors’ Views of Their Forest Certification Alternatives.” Forest Policy for Private Forestry. Ed. Accepted through a blind peer review process established by editors CAB International, 2002.
Book Chapter
Benjamin Cashore with Steven Bernstein. “The International-Domestic Nexus: The Effects of International Trade and Environmental Politics on the Canadian Forest Sector.” Canadian Forest Policy: Regimes, Policy Dynamics and Institutional Adaptations. Ed. Howlett (ed.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
2001
Report
Benjamin Cashore. “What Should Canada Do When the Softwood Lumber Agreement Expires?.” policy.ca policy.ca, February 2001.
Book Chapter
Benjamin Cashore with Steven Bernstein. “Globalization, Internationalization and Liberal Environmentalism: Exploring Non-domestic Sources of Influence on Canadian Environmental Policy.” Canadian Environmental Policy: Ecosystems, Politics and Process. 2nd Edition, Ed. Debora L. VanNijnatten and Robert Boardman, (ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Journal Article
Benjamin Cashore with Rayner, Howlett, Wilson, and Hoberg. “Privileging the Sub-Sector: Critical Sub Sectors and Sectoral Relationships in Forest Policy-Making.” Journal of Forest Policy and Economics 2.3-4 (2001): 319-332. DOI: 10.1016/S1389-9341(01)00038-7
2000
Journal Article
Benjamin Cashore with Steven Bernstein. “Globalization, Four Paths of Internationalization and Domestic Policy Change: The Case of Eco-forestry Policy Change in British Columbia, Canada.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 33.1 (2000): 67-99. DOI: 10.1017/S0008423900000044
Journal Article
Benjamin Cashore with Ilan Vertinsky. “Policy Networks and Firm Behaviours: Governance Systems and Firm Responses to External Demands for Sustainable Forest Management.” Policy Sciences 33 (2000): 1 - 30. DOI: 10.1023/A:1004728206505
1999
Working Paper
Benjamin Cashore. “An Examination of Why a Long-term Resolution to the Canada/US Softwood Lumber Dispute Eludes Policy Makers.” Canadian Forest Service Pacific Research Station working paper. Industry, Trade and Economics Program, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Pacific Research Station working paper. Industry, Trade and Economics Program, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, February 1999.
Book Chapter
Benjamin Cashore. “Chapter 3: The US Pacific Northwest.” Forest Policy: International Case Studies. Ed. Wilson et al. Oxon, UK: CAB International, 1999.
