Articulating FPIC through transnational sustainability standards: A comparative analysis of Forest Stewardship Council’s standard development processes in Canada, Russia and Sweden

Teitelbaum, Sara; Tysiachniouk, Maria; McDermott, Constance L.; Elbakidze, Marine

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105631

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“…What explains potential divergence regarding the assimilation of IGIs into national FSC standards? This is part of a broader research effort to characterize practices and outcomes related to FSC standard-setting processes in the area of biodiversity and rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities (Teitelbaum et al 2021. Such studies are critical for informing debates over the feasibility and/or desirability of global harmonization in transnational private sustainability governance.…”

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Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia

Elbakidze¹,

Dawson²,

McDermott³

et al. 2022

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Our work focuses on the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), one of the most stringent, but also contested certification schemes for sustainable forestry. Responding to criticisms concerning inconsistency at the national level, FSC-International recently increased the prescriptiveness of its international standards, including the development of biodiversity-related International Generic Indicators (IGIs). We aim to understand recent efforts in Canada, Sweden, and Russia to revise national-level FSC standards in line with biodiversity-related IGIs. What were the key factors influencing the standard-development process and its outcomes? Were stakeholders satisfied with the negotiations and what was finally achieved? The data were drawn from semi-structured interviews with key participants, a comparative analysis of biodiversity-related indicators in newly approved FSC standards, and analysis of reports prepared by national FSC offices. We applied the Institutional Development and Analysis framework within a complex systems approach to identify multiple interconnected factors that shaped standard-development processes and outcomes in each country. Our findings indicate that despite persistent efforts of FSC-International to harmonize FSC standards across all countries, there are a number of interrelated key factors, which influence outcomes at the national level. Four common clusters of endogenous factors were key to standard-development processes and outcomes in each of these countries: process-related factors, biodiversity-related actions, desired level of control over biodiversity-related outcomes, and adequacy of available knowledge about biodiversity. Forest governance was the only common cluster of key exogenous factors in Sweden and Russia, many of which were identified as constraining the emergence of a consensus-oriented negotiation process. Our findings indicate that efforts to enhance the consistent performance of forest certification for biodiversity conservation require an improved understanding of negotiation outcomes as the emergent products of interactions between multiple exogenous and endogenous factors. This implies a need for a greater focus on process management aspects during future negotiations.

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Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia

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McDermott³

et al. 2022

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Governance in the Boreal Forest: What Role for Local and Indigenous Communities?

Teitelbaum

Asselin

Bissonnette

et al. 2023

Advances in Global Change Research

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This chapter describes key trends in boreal forest governance in the twenty-first century and implications for the engagement of local and Indigenous communities. By focusing on three global trends—internationalization, marketization, and decentralization—we highlight the evolving role of local and Indigenous communities in increasingly hybrid and multiscale governance arrangements. We present two case studies, community forests in Canada and Sami–industry collaborative planning in Sweden, to analyze the qualities of local governance initiatives and how they seek to transform conventional approaches to economic development and land-use practices according to the values and priorities of local and Indigenous communities.

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Forest Certification in Boreal Forests: Current Developments and Future Directions

McDermott

Elbakidze

Teitelbaum

et al. 2023

Advances in Global Change Research

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Forest certification has expanded rapidly in boreal forests as a means to verify responsible management. It was spearheaded in the early 1990s by civil society organizations concerned about the negative impacts of industrial forestry on biodiversity and the rights of Indigenous and local communities. Certification standards are agreed by multistakeholder groups and outline a set of environmental and social requirements. Forest companies that meet those standards can put a green label on their wood products, thus gaining market recognition for good forest practice. This chapter reviews the particular challenges facing certification in the boreal region and the ongoing debates about how best to address those challenges. It examines differences between certification schemes and variations in requirements across world regions on key issues, such as protecting the rights of Indigenous and local communities and management of woodland caribou. It finds, for example, that the recognition and protection of Indigenous rights are more comprehensive in Canada than in Russia. This highlights the political and dynamic nature of certification as it evolves and adapts to changing social and environmental contexts.

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Articulating FPIC through transnational sustainability standards: A comparative analysis of Forest Stewardship Council’s standard development processes in Canada, Russia and Sweden

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia

Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia

Governance in the Boreal Forest: What Role for Local and Indigenous Communities?

Forest Certification in Boreal Forests: Current Developments and Future Directions

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