Sustainability Certification Schemes in the Agricultural and Natural Resource Sectors: Outcomes for Society...

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Melissa Vogt Malin Jonell (Stockholm Resilience Center, Sweden)

Sustainability Certification Schemes in the Agricultural and Natural Resource Sectors

Outcomes for Society and the Environment

Melissa Vogt, Malin Jonell (Stockholm Resilience Center, Sweden), Megan Bailey (Dalhousie University, Canada)

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English

Routledge
09 May 2019

Agriculture & related industries; Energy industries & utilities; Sustainability; Sustainable agriculture

Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management

This book provides a balanced critique of a range of international sustainability certification schemes across nine agricultural and natural resource industries.

Certification schemes set standards through intramarket private and multi-stakeholder mechanisms, and while third-party verification is often compulsory, certification schemes are regulated voluntarily rather than legislatively. This volume examines the intricacies of certification schemes and the issues they seek to address and provides the context within which each scheme operates. While a distinction between sustainability certifications and extra-markets or intrabusiness codes of conducts is made, the book also demonstrates how both are often working towards similar sustainability objectives. Each chapter highlights a different sector, including animal welfare, biodiversity, biofuels, coffee, fisheries, flowers, forest management and mining, with the contributions offering interdisciplinary perspectives and utilising a wide range of methodologies. The realities, achievements and challenges faced by varying certification schemes are discussed, identifying common outcomes and findings and concluding with recommendations for future practice and research.

The book is aimed at advanced students, researchers and professionals in agribusiness, natural resource economics, sustainability assessment and corporate social responsibility.

Edited by: Melissa Vogt, Malin Jonell (Stockholm Resilience Center, Sweden), Megan Bailey (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138572973
ISBN 10: 1138572977
Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 09 May 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Melissa Vogt has been involved with and considering outcomes associated with sustainability certifications since 2006. She completed doctoral studies early 2019. She has experience as a consultant to small and medium-sized business in developing countries; and as an evaluator for community-based projects and programmes, and for commercialised scientific projects. She has taught in higher education in Rwanda and Australia and is currently based at the University of New South Wales, Australia.