Experimentalism in transnational forest governance
Implementing European Union Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreements in Indonesia and Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7997698 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Overdevest (0000-0002-3558-1904), Jonathan Zeitlin (0000-0003-1655-0448, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-87 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Regulation & Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-5983 • E-ISSN: 1748-5991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/rego.12180 |
| OpenAlex | W2767135640 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 17 |
Over the past decade, the European Union (EU) has created a novel experimentalist architecture for transnational forest governance: the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) initiative. This innovative architecture comprises extensive participation by civil society stakeholders in establishing and revising open‐ended framework goals (Voluntary Partnership Agreements [VPAs] with developing countries aimed at promoting sustainable forest governance and preventing illegal logging) and metrics for assessing progress toward them (legality standards and indicators) through monitoring and review of local implementation, underpinned by a penalty default mechanism to sanction non‐cooperation (the EU Timber Regulation that prohibits operators from placing illegally harvested wood on the European market). This paper analyzes the implementation of VPAs in Indonesia and Ghana, the two countries furthest advanced toward issuing FLEGT export licences. A central finding is the reciprocal relationship between the experimentalist architecture of the FLEGT initiative and transnational civil society activism, whereby the VPAs’ insistence on stakeholder participation, independent monitoring, and joint implementation review, underwritten by the EU, empowers domestic non‐governmental organizations with local knowledge to expose problems on the ground, hold public authorities accountable for addressing them, and contribute to developing provisional solutions
Business · Civil society · Corporate governance · Enforcement · European union · General partnership · Illegal logging · International trade · Law enforcement · Logging · Political science · Principle of legality · Stakeholder · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Forest Management and Policy · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Public Administration · Finance · Forestry
The UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees
Sustainability certification and legality verification in Indonesian natural forest-based wood products value chains
The multiple streams framework and forest policy change process in Ghana
FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement implementation in Ghana
Naissance, disparition et remplacement d'un dispositif de réglementation transnationale des questions sociales au Bangladesh
The political logics of EU-FLEGT in Thailand's multistakeholder negotiations
Examining the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) action plan in Ghana through a governmentality lens
Imposing legality
Is experimentalist governance self‐limiting or self‐reinforcing? Strategic uncertainty and recursive rulemaking in European Union electricity regulation
The essential ingredients of food regulatory governance
Forest certification
Explaining public policy change in a developing country
Flegt
Improving Indonesia’s timber legality and sustainability verification system
Local communities' knowledge and perception of FLEGT -VPA - insights from Ghana
Tracing timber legality in practice
Can supply chain laws prevent deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia
The (post)politicisation of timber trade
Research trend
Challenges facing independent monitoring networks in the Indonesian timber legality assurance system
Perceptions of wood-processing industries on FLEGT implementation
When P stands for politics. The role of the EU in the VPAs
A comparative analysis of the institutional capacity of FLEGT VPA in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Ghana, Liberia, and the Republic of the Congo
FSC sustainability certification as green-lane for legality verification under the Eutr? Changes and policy learning at the interplay of private governance and public policy
Experimental’ or business as usual? Implementing the European Union Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement in Ghana
The Interaction of Private and Public Governance
Timber Security Practices, Vulnerabilities, and Challenges in the Southern United States
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform
Does the rise of transnational governance ‘hollow-out’ the state? Discourse analysis of the mandatory Indonesian sustainable palm oil policy
Environmental Supply Chain Regulations in a Changing Market Environment
Contested forests
Balancing experimentalist and hierarchical governance in European Union electricity and telecommunications regulation
External Europeanization through timber trade agreements
Professional ecologies in European sustainable finance
Joint bodies in the European Union's international agreements
Private authority and public policy interactions in global context
Experimentalist interactions
Extending Experimentalist Governance?
Process-Tracing Methods
Experimentalist Governance
Comparative analysis
Gridlock
Negotiating the supply of legal timber to the domestic market in Ghana
The timber legality verification system and the voluntary partnership agreement (VPA) in Indonesia
FLEGT VPAs
Commodifying Legality? Who and What Counts as Legal in the Indonesian Wood Trade
Imagined Forestry
Assembling an experimentalist regime
Transnational governance and the re‐centered state
Global Experimentalist Governance
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |