Benjamin Cashore
Benjamin Cashore is Professor, Environmental Governance & Political Science at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
He is Director of the Yale Program on Forest Policy and Governance and is courtesy joint appointed in Yale's Department of Political Science. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto, BA and MA degrees in political science from Carleton University.
Cashore's major research interests include the emergence of private authority, its intersection with traditional governmental regulatory processes, and the role of firms, non-state actors, and governments in shaping these trends. His book, Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-state Authority (with Graeme Auld and Deanna Newsom) was awarded the International Studies Association's 2005 Sprout prize for the best book on international environmental policy and politics. Cashore is co-editor (with Fred Gale, Errol Meidinger and Deanna Newsom of a 622 page, 16 country analysis, Confronting Sustainability: Forest Certification in Developing and Transitioning Societies.
His current efforts include a major international comparison (with Constance McDermott) of 20 countries' domestic forest policy regulations, (under contract with Earthscan); a comparative study on firm responses to forest certification in the US forest sector (with Auld, Prakash and Sasser); and an analysis (with Bernstein) of the emergence of non-state market driven global governance generally.
In addition to the Sprout prize, he was awarded (with Steven Bernstein) the 2001 John McMenemy prize for the best article to appear in the Canadian Journal of Political Science in the year 2000 for their article, "Globalization, Four Paths of Internationalization and Domestic Policy Change: The Case of Eco-forestry in British Columbia, Canada."
Further Information:
School Forestry & Environmental Studies
Environmental Governance
Publications:
Governance Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority
Confronting Sustainability: Forest Certification in Developing and Transitioning Countries
Forest Policy for Private Forestry
In Search of Sustainability: The Politics of Forest Policy in British Columbia in the 1990
