Regulating the globalised economy. Articulating private voluntary standards and public regulations

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Marcel Djama
marcel.djama@cirad.fr
http://publications.cirad.fr/en/auteur.php?mat=1553
CIRAD, UMR MOISA

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https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00052

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development policies, public-private cooperation, globalization, sustainable development, standardizing, certification, forest certification, environmental legislation, working conditions, natural resources management, quality labels, agroindustry

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How can the social and environmental impact of economic globalisation be reduced? Faced with the deadlock of inter-State negotiations aimed at implementing collective action, private actors – multinational companies and NGOs – are developing standards of “good” social and environmental practice, such as forest certification or standards regarding working conditions. Some people believe that the proliferation of these voluntary standards reflects the privatisation of sustainable development policy. Yet private standards and public regulations are often complementary and work in synergy; synergies that must be consolidated

Biographie de l'auteur

Marcel Djama

Marcel DJAMA is a social science researcher in the MOISA joint research unit (Markets, organisations, institutions and stakeholder strategies, https://umr-moisa.cirad.fr/). His research centres on the internationalisation of environmental and agricultural policies and their local and national effects. He focuses particularly on social movements (especially the mobilisation of local and indigenous communities) and the growing role of non-State actors (firms and NGOs) in global policy.

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Author's publications

Djama M., Fouilleux E., Vagneron I., 2011. Standard-setting, certifying and benchmarking. A governmentality approach to sustainability standard in the Agro-Food sector. In: Ponte S., Vestegaard J., Gibbon P. (Eds), Governing through Standards: Origins, drivers and limits. London, Palgrave, p. 184-209. ISBN 978-0-230-29540-7. http://agritrop.cirad.fr/561648/

Other references

Bartley T., 2007. Institutional emergence in an era of globalization: the rise of transnational private regulation of labor and environmental conditions. American Journal of Sociology 113 (2): 297-351. https://doi.org/10.1086/518871

Carey C., Guttenstein E., 2008. R079 Governmental use of voluntary standards: innovation in sustainability governance. London, ISEAL Alliance, Trade Standards Practitioners Network, 32 p. http://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/sites/default/files/governmental_use_of_voluntary_standards_innovation_in_sustainability_governance.pdf

FAO, 2003. Normes environnementales et sociales, certification et labellisation des cultures commerciales. Rome, FAO, 111 p. ISBN 92-5-205068-X. http://www.fao.org/3/y5136f/y5136f00.htm

Pattberg P., 2007. Private institutions and global governance. The new politics of environmental sustainability. Cheltenham (UK), Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 320 p. ISBN 9781847202314.

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2011-01-01

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Djama, M. (2011). Regulating the globalised economy. Articulating private voluntary standards and public regulations. Perspective, (11), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00052

Numéro

No 11 (2011): Normes volontaires privées

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Anglais

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