Description
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the spread of public and private environmental and food safety regulations from Europe and North America to Asia and Africa. It explores the growth of policy diffusion and standard alignment on sustainability observed in non-Western follower countries in a globalizing world.
The book examines the role of both developed and developing non-Western countries as followers that adopt food safety, environmental and sustainability policies under different conditions to those of the originating country. Chapters analyse non-state forms of transnational regulation, and how these have diffused to non-Western countries. They showcase how standard alignment efforts lead to multiple localized regulations determined by specific circumstances, highlighting the dilemma in designing policy in an era of globalization.
The use of in-depth case studies by renowned experts will make this book an important read for political science and economics scholars interested in trade, standards and international regulation. Policy-makers concerned with issues of sustainability in follower countries will find the book’s lessons on how to adapt policies helpful.
Trade Review‘The Diffusion of Public and Private Sustainability Regulation
sheds much needed light on the domestic processes in Asian and African countries that adopt policies originating from elsewhere. Policy diffusion processes are an essential part of global environmental governance but we still don’t fully understand how, in particular, non-Western countries translate and adopt environmental regulations that originate from Western countries. This book is a major contribution in this regard.’ -- - Katja Biedenkopf, University of Leuven, Belgium
Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to The Diffusion of Public and Private Sustainability Regulations: The Responses of Follower Countries 1 Etsuyo Michida, John Humphrey and David Vogel 2. National palm oil standards in Asia: motivations and impacts on trade and rural development 17 John Humphrey and Etsuyo Michida 3. Factors explaining the adoption of green building rating systems at the country level: competition of LEED and other green building rating systems 47 Kenji Shiraishi and Hajime Iseda 4. Diffusion mechanisms for regulating fishery products: the cases of Tanzania, Madagascar, and Mauritius 75 Akiko Yanai 5. Seeking the similarities while keeping the differences: the development of emissions trading schemes in northeast Asia 99 Fang-Ting Cheng 6. The diffusion of energy efficiency policies in Asian countries: country-specific drivers of policy followers 120 Michikazu Kojima Index 137
