Sonderegger, Gabi; Heinimann, Andreas; Diogo, Vasco; Oberlack, Christoph (2022). Governing spillovers of agricultural land use through voluntary sustainability standards: A coverage analysis of sustainability requirements. Earth system governance, 14, p. 100158. Elsevier 10.1016/j.esg.2022.100158
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Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are prominent governance instruments that define and verify sustainable agricultural land use at farm and supply chain levels. However, agricultural production can prompt spillover dynamics with implications for sustainability that go beyond these scales, e.g., through runoff of chemical inputs or long-distance migrant worker flows. Scientific evidence on the governance of spillovers through VSS is, however, limited. This study investigates the extent to which VSS regulate a set of 21 environmental and socio-economic spillovers of agricultural land use. To this end, we assessed the spillover coverage in 100 sustainability standards. We find that VSS have a clear tendency to cover environmental spillovers more extensively than socio-economic spillovers. Further, we show how spillover coverage differs across varying types of standard-setting organizations and VSS verification mechanisms. Finally, we discuss the role and limitations that VSS can have in addressing the revealed gaps.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
10 Strategic Research Centers > Wyss Academy for Nature 10 Strategic Research Centers > Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) |
Graduate School: |
International Graduate School North-South (IGS North-South) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Sonderegger, Gabi, Heinimann, Andreas, Oberlack, Christoph |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology |
ISSN: |
2589-8116 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Projects: |
[1718] COUPLED – Operationalizing telecoupling to solve sustainability challenges related to land use
[805] Sustainability Governance |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Melchior Peter Nussbaumer |
Date Deposited: |
01 Feb 2023 10:01 |
Last Modified: |
05 Feb 2023 02:25 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.esg.2022.100158 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/177656 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/177656 |
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