Standardizing sustainable development? The Forest Stewardship Council's plantation policy review process as neoliberal environmental governance.

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Trust, legitimacy and power in forest certification: A case study of the FSC in British Columbia (2012, background): “The launch of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in 1993, unlike earlier certification efforts, has grabbed the attention of scholars because it involved a Northern civil society effort to address tropical forest loss in a way that would achieve widespread legitimacy across the global forest suppl”
Harnessing Wicked Problems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships (2018, background): “Yet, studies also reveal the fluidity of MSP governance as a continuous process of re-understanding, 1 3 re-assessing, adjustment and adaptation (e.g., Klooster 2010; Schouten et al.”
The emergence of Southern standards in agricultural value chains: A new trend in sustainability governance? (2015, background): “Various studies have noted that participation by Northern stakeholders far outweighs, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the participation by Southern stakeholders in standard-setting processes — even when these take place through multi-stakeholder initiatives encompassing a wide range of actors”