Bøger af Philip Schleifer

What global shifts in markets and power mean for the politics and governance of sustainability.In recent years, major shifts in global markets from North to South have created a new geography of trade and consumption, particularly in the agricultural sector. How this shift affects the governance of sustainability, and thus the future of the planet, is the pressing topic Philip Schleifer takes up in this book. The processes of twenty-first-century globalization are fundamentally changing the politics and governance of commodity production, Schleifer argues, with profound implications for the environment in the food-producing countries of the Global South. At the center of Schleifer's study are Brazil and Indonesia—two key sites of experimentation in new models of global environmental and commodity governance—where palm oil and soy supply chains have seen unprecedented degrees of private environmental governance in recent years. However, instead of transforming these industries, the diffusion of transnational sustainability standards has accompanied a worsening ecological crisis, with mounting evidence of increasingly strong links between deforestation and globalization in twenty-first-century agricultural trade. To uncover the causes of this governance failure, Schleifer develops a multi-level framework for analyzing how contemporary globalization is reconfiguring the political economies of such industries. The result is the first comprehensive analysis of the shift of global agricultural trade to the South and the deepening crisis of commodity-driven deforestation—and a complex and evolving picture of both the risks and opportunities for sustainability presented by this transformative shift.

Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (Otto-Suhr Institut für Politikwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: How can new governance arrangements such as public-private partnerships contribute to business regulation in developing economies? More specifically, which governance instruments are best suited to make domestic for-profit actors comply with social standards? Seeking to address these broader questions, this study opens with a puzzle of varying degrees of labour standard compliance across Asiäs garment economies. Whereas problems with labour standards persist throughout the region, evidence points to improved compliance in Cambodiäs garment sector. This improvement is supposed to be due to an innovative policy project called Better Factories Cambodia, which involves public and private actors from different levels to induce compliance in an extremely difficult environment. Drawing on compliance theory, the study advances the hypothesis that this success is due to a combination of management and enforcement instruments. A comparison of Cambodiäs and Bangladesh¿s garment sectors and a process analysis of the causal mechanisms in operation verify this complementary-compliance-hypothesis. Thereby, the study lays a foundation for future theory-guided research on business regulation through new modes of governance.