Benjamin Cashore

Professor - Environmental Policy and Governance and Political Science
Director, Program on Forest Policy and Governance

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • BA Carleton University, Political Science
  • MA Carleton University, Political Science
  • PhD University of Toronto, Political Science
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Experience

  • Assistant Professor - School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University(1998-2001)
  • Legislation/policy advisor to the leader of the Canadian New Democratic Party (1990-1993)
  • Research assistant to members of the Canadian Parliament (1987-1988)
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Forest Economics and Policy Analysis Research Unit, University of British Columbia (1997-1998)
  • Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University working on issues related to U.S.-Canada softwood lumber trade (1996-1997).


Research Interests

  • Forest Certification and the Privatization of Environmental Governance
  • Explaining Cross-country Divergence in Environmental Forestry Policy Responses
  • Firm Behavior Toward Voluntary and Market-based Policy Instruments
  • Globalization, Transnational Networks and Legitimate Authority
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Selected Publications

  • Kelly Levin, Benjamin Cashore and Jonathan Koppell. 2009. “Can-Non State Certification Systems Bolster State-Centered Efforts to Promote Sustainable Development through the Clean Development Mechanism?”, Wake Forest Law Review Vol 44 pp. 777-798
  • Constance McDermott, Benjamin Cashore and Peter Kanowski. 2009. “Setting the Bar: An International Comparison Of Public and Private Forest Policy Specifications and Implications For Explaining Policy Trends”, special issue on “Forest Science, Forest Knowledge and Forest Policy” Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences Vol. 6, No. 3, September, pp. 217–237
  • Michael Howlett and Benjamin Cashore. 2009. “The Dependent Variable Problem in the Study of Policy Change”, Special Issue on Policy Dynamics, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Vol. 11, No. 1, March, pp. 29–42
  • Graeme Auld, Steven Bernstein and Benjamin Cashore. 2008. “The New Corporate Social Responsibility”, Annual Review of Environment and Resources Vol. 33, pp. 413–35.
  • Kelly Levin, Constance McDermott and Benjamin Cashore. 2008. “The Climate Regime as Global Forest Governance: Can Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) Initiatives Pass a “Dual Effectiveness” Test?, International Forestry Review Vol.10(3), pp. 538-549.
  • Constance McDermott, Emily Noah and Benjamin Cashore. 2008. “Differences that Matter?: A Framework for Comparing Environmental Certification Standards and Government Policies” Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. Vol. 10, No. 1 (March), pp: 47-70.
  • Michael Howlett and Benjamin Cashore. 2007. "Re-Visiting the New Orthodoxy of Policy Dynamics: The Dependent Variable and Re-Aggregation Problems in the Study of Policy Change”, forthcoming Canadian Political Science Review.
  • Constance McDermott, Emily Noah and Benjamin Cashore. 2007. “Differences that Matter?: A Framework for Comparing Environmental Certification Standards and Government Policies”, forthcoming Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning.
  • Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld, Steven Bernstein and Constance McDermott.2007. “Can Non-state Governance ‘Ratchet Up’ Global Environmental Standards? Lessons from the Forest Sector”, forthcoming Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, special edition on private sector implementation of multilateral environmental agreements [reviewed by managing editor].
  • Benjamin Cashore and Michael Howeltt. 2007. “Punctuating Which Equilibrium? Understanding Thermostatic Policy Dynamics In Pacific Northwest Forestry”, American Journal of Political Science Volume 51, No. 3, July, pp. 532-551.
    • Steven Bernstein and Benjamin Cashore. 2007. “Can Non-State Global Governance be Legitimate?: An Analytical Framework” Forthcoming, Regulation and Governance. Benjamin Cashore, Beth Egan, Graeme Auld and Deanna Newsom. 2007. “Revising Theories of Non-state Market Driven (NSMD) Governance: Lessons from the Finnish Forest Certification Experience” Global Environmental Politics. Volume 7, Issue 1 (February), pp. 1-44.
  • Erika Sasser, Aseem Prakash, Benjamin Cashore and Graeme Auld. 2006. “Direct Targeting as an NGO Political Strategy: Examining Private Authority Regimes in the Forestry Sector Business and Politics (December) 8(3), pp. 1-34.
  • Deanna Newsom, Volker Bahn and Benjamin Cashore. 2006. “Does Forest Certification Matter? An Analysis of Operation-Level Changes Required During the SmartWood Certification Process in the US. Journal of Forest Policy and Economics. Vol 9, Issue 3 December, pp. 197-208.
  • Glenn T. Howe, Bruce Schindler, Benjamin Cashore, Eric Hansen, Denise Lach, and Ward Armstrong.2005. “Public Influences on Plantation Forestry”, With March/April, Journal of Forestry. 102 (2) March, pp. 90-94.
  • Benjamin Cashore, Kees van Kooten, Ilan Vertinsky, Graeme Auld and Julia Affolderbach. 2005. “Private or Self-Regulation? A Comparative Study of Forest Certification Choices in Canada, the United States and Germany” Journal of Forest Policy and Economics (Volume 7, Issue 1, January), pp. 53-69.
  • Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld and Deanna Newsom. 2004. “The United States’ Race to Certify Sustainable Forestry: Non-State Environmental Governance and the Competition for Policy-Making Authority”, Business and Politics Volume 5, Issue 3 (November, 2003) [Produced in April, 2004], pp. 219-259.
  • Benjamin Cashore and Graeme Auld. 2003. “British Columbia’s Environmental Forest Policy in Perspective”, December Journal of Forestry 101(8), pp. 42-47.
  • Benjamin Cashore and James Lawson.2003. “Private Policy Networks and Sustainable Forestry Policy: Comparing Forest Certification Experiences in the US Northeast and the Canadian Maritimes”, Canadian-American Public Policy Vol 53, March, pp. 1-44.
    • Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld and Deanna Newsom.2003. “Forest Certification (Ecolabeling) Programs and their Policy-Making Authority: Explaining Divergence Among North American and European Case Studies” Journal of Forest Policy and Economics (Volume 5, issue 3), pp. 225-247 Benjamin Cashore. 2002. Legitimacy and the Privatization of Environmental Governance: How Non State Market-Driven (NSMD) Governance Systems Gain Rule Making Authority”. Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration, vol. 15, no. 4 (October), pp. 503-529
  • 1999 "Policy Networks and Firm Behaviours: Governance Systems and Firm Responses to External Demands for Sustainable Forest Management" (with Ilan Vertinsky) (Forthcoming, Policy Sciences).
  • 1998 "Flights of the Phoenix: Explaining the Durability of the Canada-US Softwood Lumber Dispute", in Canadian-American Public Policy, Number 32, December 1997 (Published Spring, 1998).
  • 1999 "Policy Networks, Firms, and Sustainable Forest Management" (with Ilan Vertinsky), in Published Proceedings of The Sustainable Forest Management Network Conference, Science and Practice: Sustaining the Boreal Forest, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, February 14-17.
  • 1999 "World Trends and Canadian Forest Policy: Exploring the Influence of Consumers, Environmental Group Activity, International Trade Rules and World Forestry Negotiations", Forestry Chronicle, January/February 1999 edition.
  • 1999 "Globalization and Four Paths of Internationalization: Examining Eco-forest Policy Change in British Columbia" (with Steven Bernstein).
    Forthcoming, Canadian Journal of Political Science.

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