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Can private standards bring about more sustainable production practices? Grabs answers this question by combining large-N hypothesis testing with a rich empirical account of sustainability governance in the coffee sectors of Honduras, Colombia and Costa Rica. For consumers, academics and practitioners interested in corporate social responsibility.
Sommario
1. Introduction; 2. The dilemma of effective private governance; 3. Defining the goal of a sustainable coffee sector; 4. Changing the market; 5. Changing farming practices; 6. Designing effective private institutions; 7. Interacting with public institutions; 8. Conclusions.
Info autore
Janina Grabs is a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich. She is the recipient of APSA's 2019 Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award, the 2018 Giandomenico Majone Prize for the best early career contribution to the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, the 2019 Oran R. Young Prize of the Earth System Governance Project, and the 2016 IFAMA Best Paper Award in the category 'relevance for managers'. She also provides strategic advice to the coffee industry, for instance as 2019 SCA Re:Co Speaker.
Riassunto
Can private standards bring about more sustainable production practices? Grabs answers this question by combining large-N hypothesis testing with a rich empirical account of sustainability governance in the coffee sectors of Honduras, Colombia and Costa Rica. For consumers, academics and practitioners interested in corporate social responsibility.
Prefazione
This large-N, three-country study of the coffee sector assesses the effectiveness of private governance by standards in promoting sustainable production.
Testo aggiuntivo
'Once in a generation a book appears that is so impressive in its theoretical rigour, empirical research, and practical importance for the world, that it grabs you and doesn't let go. Grabs has produced just such a tome. She is clearly deeply motivated by a curiosity about whether private governance and corporate social responsibility initiatives might indeed be more 'effective and efficient' than traditional governmental processes in addressing enduring environmental challenges. To answer this question, she spent years in the field generating her own primary quantitative data of decades of 'on the ground' impacts, which she reinforced this research through careful and systematic interviews with officials working at multiple governance levels, to carefully and systematically assesses ecolabeling in the coffee sector. A must read not only for students of the politics and policies of commodities and environment, but for anyone interested in understanding whether, and how, innovative policies might be developed, and championed, to meaningfully promote environmental stewardship in the global era.' Benjamin Cashore, Li Ka Shing Professor in Public Management, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
