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Overview

Graeme Auld is affiliated with Carleton University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research at the intersection of environmental science, governance, and policy. Their work spans multiple fields including Environmental Science and Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on areas such as global trade, sustainability, and climate change governance.

The scientist's most frequent publication venues include Regulation & Governance, where they have several publications, as well as other journals such as Policy Sciences, Global Policy, Conservation Science and Practice, and Transnational Environmental Law.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Graeme Auld include:

  • "Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis" (2021, Policy Sciences)
  • "Governing AI through ethical standards: learning from the experiences of other private governance initiatives" (2022, Journal of European Public Policy)

In addition to articles, Graeme Auld has authored books published by prominent academic publishers. One such work is Constructing Private Governance (2020), published by Yale University Press.

Their research covers several main topics:

  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

In terms of subfields, their work addresses Global and Planetary Change, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Graeme Auld include Steven J. Cooke, Trina Rytwinski, Joseph Bennett, Nathan Young, and Laurenne Schiller, indicating a network of collaborators across environmental and policy research.

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

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

    Benjamin William Cashore;Graeme Auld;Deanna Newsom

  • Certification Schemes and the Impacts on Forests and Forestry

    Graeme Auld;Lars H. Gulbrandsen;Constance L. McDermott

  • The New Corporate Social Responsibility

    Graeme Auld;Steven Bernstein;Benjamin Cashore

  • Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification

    Graeme Auld

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

    Benjamin Cashore;Graeme Auld;Steven Bernstein;Constance McDermott

  • Transparency in Nonstate Certification: Consequences for Accountability and Legitimacy

    Graeme Auld;Lars H. Gulbrandsen

  • 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 land governance: from territory to flow?

    Thomas Sikor;Graeme Auld;Anthony J. Bebbington;Tor A. Benjaminsen

  • 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

  • Direct Targeting as an NGO Political Strategy: Examining Private Authority Regimes in the Forestry Sector

    Erika N. Sasser;Aseem Prakash;Benjamin Cashore;Graeme Auld

  • Assessing Certification as Governance: Effects and Broader Consequences for Coffee:

    Graeme Auld

  • Revising Theories of Nonstate Market-Driven (NSMD) Governance: Lessons from the Finnish Forest Certification Experience

    Benjamin Cashore;Elizabeth Egan;Graeme Auld;Deanna Newsom

  • Contested Accountability Logics in Evolving Nonstate Certification for Fisheries Sustainability

    Lars Harald Gulbrandsen;Graeme Auld

  • Unbundling the Regime Complex: The Effects of Private Authority

    Jessica F. Green;Graeme Auld

  • Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis.

    Graeme Auld;Steven Bernstein;Benjamin Cashore;Kelly Levin

  • Evaluating the effects of policy innovations: Lessons from a systematic review of policies promoting low-carbon technology

    Graeme Auld;Alexandra Mallett;Bozica Burlica;Francis Nolan-Poupart

  • Governance for the Environment: The emergence of non-state market-driven (NSMD) global environmental governance: a cross-sectoral assessment

    Graeme Auld;Cristina Balboa;Steven Bernstein;Benjamin Cashore

  • Confronting trade-offs and interactive effects in the choice of policy focus: Specialized versus comprehensive private governance

    Graeme Auld

  • Unbundling the Regime Complex: The Effects of Private Authority

    Graeme Auld;Jessica F. Green

  • The New Corporate Social Responsibility

    Graeme Auld;Steven Bernstein;Benjamin Cashore

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Cashore
Benjamin Cashore National University of Singapore
Steven Bernstein
Steven Bernstein University of Toronto
Stacy D. VanDeveer
Stacy D. VanDeveer University of Massachusetts Boston
Anthony Bebbington
Anthony Bebbington Clark University
Tor A. Benjaminsen
Tor A. Benjaminsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Heike Schroeder
Heike Schroeder University of East Anglia
Thomas Sikor
Thomas Sikor University of East Anglia
Jake Rice
Jake Rice Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Jules M. Blais
Jules M. Blais University of Ottawa

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