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Social Sciences and Humanities
Singapore
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
53
Citations
16639
World Ranking
2254
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Benjamin Cashore is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their scholarly work spans multiple intersecting fields including Social Sciences, Business, Management and Accounting, and Environmental Science.

The scientist's research prominently addresses topics such as Forest Management and Policy, Global trade, sustainability, and social impact, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Public Policy and Administration Research, Policy Transfer and Learning, Environmental Sustainability in Business, and Social Policy and Reform Studies.

Recent publications by Benjamin Cashore include the following:

  • Private authority and public policy interactions in global context: Governance spheres for problem solving, 2021, Regulation & Governance

Among the frequent co-authors who have collaborated with the scientist are:

  • Michael Howlett
  • Sebastian Sewerin
  • Bryan W. Husted
  • Rajat Panwar
  • Jonatan Pinkse

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in the following publication venues:

  • Business Strategy and the Environment
  • Regulation & Governance
  • Policy Sciences
  • Ecological Economics
  • Policy Design and Practice

Benjamin Cashore's contributions demonstrate an integration of political science, sustainability, and business strategy frameworks. The body of work engages deeply with governance mechanisms and policy design across international and environmental contexts.

Best Publications

  • Overcoming the tragedy of super wicked problems: constraining our future selves to ameliorate global climate change

    Kelly Levin;Benjamin Cashore;Steven Bernstein;Graeme Auld

  • Legitimacy and the Privatization of Environmental Governance: How Non-State Market-Driven (NSMD) Governance Systems Gain Rule-Making Authority

    Benjamin Cashore

  • Governing through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority

    Benjamin William Cashore;Graeme Auld;Deanna Newsom

  • Can non-state global governance be legitimate? An analytical framework

    Steven Bernstein;Benjamin Cashore

  • The New Corporate Social Responsibility

    Graeme Auld;Steven Bernstein;Benjamin Cashore

  • Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

    F. Biermann;F. Biermann;K. Abbott;S. Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • The Dependent Variable Problem in the Study of Policy Change: Understanding Policy Change as a Methodological Problem

    Michael Howlett;Benjamin Cashore

  • Punctuating Which Equilibrium? Understanding Thermostatic Policy Dynamics in Pacific Northwest Forestry

    Benjamin Cashore;Michael Howlett

  • Complex global governance and domestic policies: four pathways of influence

    Steven Bernstein;Benjamin Cashore

  • Globalization, Four Paths of Internationalization and Domestic Policy Change: The Case of EcoForestry in British Columbia, Canada

    Steven Bernstein;Benjamin Cashore

  • Implementing REDD+: lessons from analysis of forest governance

    Peter J. Kanowski;Constance L. McDermott;Benjamin W. Cashore

  • Can Non-state Governance ‘Ratchet Up’ Global Environmental Standards? Lessons from the Forest Sector

    Benjamin Cashore;Graeme Auld;Steven Bernstein;Constance McDermott

  • Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Kenneth Abbott;Steinar Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • Forest certification (eco-labeling) programs and their policy-making authority: explaining divergence among North American and European case studies

    Benjamin Cashore;Graeme Auld;Deanna Newsom

  • Playing it forward: Path dependency, progressive incrementalism, and the "Super Wicked" problem of global climate change

    K Levin;B Cashore;Steven Bernstein;G Auld

  • Global Environmental Forest Policies: An International Comparison

    Constance McDermott;Benjamin Cashore;Peter Kanowski

  • Trade-offs, co-benefits and safeguards: Current debates on the breadth of REDD+.

    Ingrid J Visseren-Hamakers;Constance McDermott;Marjanneke J Vijge;Benjamin Cashore

  • Can legality verification rescue global forest governance?: Analyzing the potential of public and private policy intersection to ameliorate forest challenges in Southeast Asia

    Benjamin Cashore;Michael W. Stone

  • Stability and climate policy? Harnessing insights on path dependence, policy feedback, and transition pathways

    Daniel Rosenbloom;James Meadowcroft;Benjamin Cashore

  • Private or self-regulation? A comparative study of forest certification choices in Canada, the United States and Germany

    Benjamin Cashore;G.Cornelis van Kooten;Ilan Vertinsky;Graeme Auld

  • Transnational private governance between the logics of empowerment and control

    Graeme Auld;Stefan Renckens;Benjamin Cashore

Frequent Co-Authors

Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Florencia Montagnini
Florencia Montagnini Yale University
Heike Schroeder
Heike Schroeder University of East Anglia
Coleen Vogel
Coleen Vogel University of the Witwatersrand
Louis Lebel
Louis Lebel Chiang Mai University
Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson Lund University
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Bruce C.V. Campbell
Bruce C.V. Campbell Royal Melbourne Hospital

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