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Director of the School of Public Policy and Administration  and Associate Professor<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Graeme\u2019s research focuses on comparative environmental politics and policy, global environmental governance, and the rise of private governance and authority. Much of his work examines the formation, evolution, and impacts of non-state and hybrid forms of global governance across economic sectors. He also researches the design and efficacy of policy aimed at tackling global problems such as climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I grew up in BC and attended UBC in the early 1990s, just as disputes over logging coastal BC forests were capturing national and international attention. The conflict grabbed my interest. I was left pondering the causes of what appeared to be an intractable disagreement over how resources ought to be managed and protected. In the years since, I\u2019ve studied the politics surrounding the use, management, and conservation of resources and the environment across geographic scales. I have paid particular attention to the rise of private certification programs \u2013 initiatives like fairtrade \u2013 that set standards for responsible business practice and award compliant companies with reputational or market benefits. Where have these initiatives come from? How do they work? Why do companies adhere to their rules? How do they establish their authority and legitimacy? What problems are they likely to solve? I use qualitative and quantitative data and methods to study these kinds of questions, with the aim of understanding how private governance compares to traditional forms of public policy, how the two interact, and what all of this might mean for attempts to govern our collective human footprint.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Affiliations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Cross Appointment, Institute of Political Economic, Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Fellow, Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty Affiliate, Governance, Environment and Markets (GEM) Initiative, Yale University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld and Stefan Renckens Forthcoming \u201cPrivate Sustainability Governance, the Global South and COVID-19: Are Changes to Audit Policies in light of the Pandemic Exacerbating Existing Inequalities?\u201d World Development<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayley Stevenson, Graeme Auld, Jen Iris Allan, Lorraine Elliott, and James Meadowcroft, Forthcoming \u201cThe Practical Fit of Concepts: Ecosystem Services and the Value of Nature\u201d Global Environmental Politics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stefan Renckens and Graeme Auld 2020 \u201cTime to Certify: Explaining Varying Efficiency of Private Regulatory Audits\u201d<\/a> Regulation & Governance<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven J. Cooke, Trina Rytwinski, Jessica J. Taylor, Elizabeth Nyboer, Vivian M. Nguyen, Joseph R. Bennett, Nathan Young, Susan Aitken, Graeme Auld, John-Francis Lane, Kent Prior, Karen E. Smokorowski, Paul A. Smith, Aerin L. Jacob, David Brown, Jules M. Blais, Jeremy T. Kerr, Banu Ormeci, Steven M. Alexander, Christopher R. Burn, Rachel T. Buxton, Diane M. Orihel, Jesse Vermaire, Dennis L. Murray, Patrice Simon, Kate Edwards, John Clarke, Marguerite A. Xenopoulos, Irene Gregory-Eaves, Elena M. Bennett, and John P. Smol. 2020 \u201cOn \u201csuccess\u201d in applied environmental research \u2013 What is it, how can it be achieved, and how does one know when it has been achieved?\u201d<\/a> Environmental Reviews<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janina Grabs, Graeme Auld, and Benjamin Cashore 2020 \u201cPrivate Regulation, Public Policy, and the Perils of Adverse Ontological Selection\u201d<\/a> Regulation & Governance<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld, 2020 \u201cTransforming Markets? Activists\u2019 Strategic Engagement with Private Governance\u201d<\/a> Organization and Environment<\/em> 33(1): 31-55<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leslie Pal, Graeme Auld and Alexandra Mallett, 2020. Beyond Policy Analysis: Public Issue Management in Turbulent Times, sixth edition, Nelson Publishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luc Fransen, Jelmer Schalk, and Graeme Auld, 2020 \u201cCommunity Structure and the Behavior of Transnational Sustainability Governors: Towards a Multi-Relational Approach\u201d<\/a> Regulation & Governance<\/em> 14(1): 3-25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stefan Renckens and Graeme Auld, 2019 \u201cStructure, Path Dependence, and Adaptation: North-South Imbalances in Transnational Private Fisheries Governance\u201d<\/a> Ecological Economics<\/em> 106: 106422<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philip Schleifer, Matteo Fiorini, and Graeme Auld 2019 \u201cTransparency in Transnational Governance: The Determinants of Information Disclosure of Voluntary Sustainability Programs\u201d Regulation & Governance<\/em> 13(4): 488-506<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luc Fransen, Jelmer Schalk, Marcel Kok, Vivek Voora, Jason Potts, Max Joosten, Philip Schleifer, and Graeme Auld, 2018 \u201cBiodiversity Protection through Networks of Voluntary Sustainability Standard Organizations?\u201d<\/a> Sustainability <\/em>10(12), 4379<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld, Michele Betsill, and Stacy VanDeveer, 2018 \u201cTransnational Governance for Mining and the Minerals Lifecycle\u201d<\/a> Annual Review of Environment and Resources <\/em>43: 425-453<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luc Fransen, Jelmer Schalk, and Graeme Auld, 2018 \u201cCommunity Structure and the Behavior of Transnational Sustainability Governors: Towards a Multi-Relational Approach\u201d<\/a> Regulation & Governance<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryan Foster, Deane Wang, Graeme Auld, and Rosa Maria Roman Cueste, 2017 \u201cAssessing Audit Impact and Thoroughness of VCS Forest Carbon Offset Projects\u201d<\/a> Environmental Science and Policy 78(December): 121-141<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kendra Sakaguchi, Anil Varughese, Graeme Auld, 2017 \u201cClimate Wars? A Systematic Review of Empirical Analyses on the Links between Climate Change and Violent Conflict\u201d <\/a>International Studies Review<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica F. Green and Graeme Auld, Forthcoming 2017 \u201cUnbundling the Regime Complex: The Effects of Private Authority\u201d <\/a>Transnational Environmental Law <\/em>6(2): 259-284<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lars H. Gulbrandsen and Graeme Auld, 2016 \u201cContested Accountability Logics in Evolving Nonstate Certification for Fisheries Sustainability\u201d<\/a> Global Environmental Politics<\/em> 16(2): 42-60<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luc Fransen, Jelmer Schalk, and Graeme Auld, 2016 \u201cWork Ties Beget Community? Assessing Interactions among Transnational Private Governance Organizations in Sustainable Agriculture\u201d<\/a> Global Networks<\/em> 16(1): 45-67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld, 2015 \u201cCertification as Governance\u201d in M. Dubnick and D. Bearfield (eds.) Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Taylor and Francis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld and Lars H. Gulbrandsen, 2015 \u201cDiversifying Nature Protection: Evaluating the Changing Tools for Forest Protection in Canada and Norway<\/a>\u201d Review of Policy Research<\/em> 32(6): 699-722<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urs Dieterich and Graeme Auld, 2015 \u201cMoving Beyond Commitments: Creating Durable Change through the Implementation of Asia Pulp and Paper\u2019s Forest Conservation Policy\u201d<\/a> Journal of Cleaner Production<\/em> 107 (November): 54-63<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld, Stefan Renckens, and Benjamin Cashore, 2015 \u201cTransnational Private Governance between the Logics of Empowerment and Control\u201d<\/a> Regulation and Governance<\/em> 9(2): 108-124<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruce Doern, Graeme Auld and Christopher Stoney, 2015 Green-lite: Complexity in Fifty Years of Canadian Environmental Policy, Governance, and Democracy<\/a>, McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press: Montreal, Kingston<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld, 2014 Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification<\/a>, Yale University Press: New Haven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld, Alexandra Mallett, Bozica Burlica, Francis Nolan-Poupart, and Robert Slater, 2014 \u201cEvaluating the effects of policy innovations: Lessons from a systematic review of policies promoting low-carbon technology.\u201d<\/a> Global Environmental Change<\/em> 29 (November): 444-458<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld 2014 \u201cConfronting Trade-offs and Interactive Effects in the Choice of Policy Focus: Specialized versus Comprehensive Private Governance\u201d Regulation and Governance<\/em> 8(1): 126-148<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld and Lars Gulbrandsen, 2014 \u201cLearning through Disclosure: The Evolving Importance of Transparency for Nonstate Certification\u201d in A. Gupta and M. Mason (eds) Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives, pp 271-296. MIT Press: Cambridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bradford S. Gentry, Thomas Sikor, Graeme Auld, Anthony J. Beddington, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Carol A. Hunsberger, Anne-Marie Izac, Matias E. Margulis, Tobias Plieninger, Heike Schroeder, and Caroline Upton, 2014. \u201cChanges in Land Governance in an Urban Era\u201d<\/a> in K. Seto and A. Reenberg (eds) Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era, pp 238-274. MIT Press: Cambridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld, 2014. \u201cPrivate Market-Based Regulations: What they are, and what they may mean for land-use governance\u201d<\/a> in K. Seto and A. Reenberg (eds) Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era, pp 217-238. MIT Press: Cambridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norichika Kanie, Peter M. Haas, Steinar Andresen, Graeme Auld, Benjamin Cashore, Pamela S. Chasek, Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliverira, Stefan Renckens, Olav Schram Stokke, Casey Stevens, Stacy VanDeveer, and Masahiko Iguchi, 2013 \u201cGreen Pluralism: Lessons from Pluralistic Configuration of Actors for Improved Environmental Governance<\/a>\u201d Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development<\/em> 55(5): 14-30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Sikor, Graeme Auld, Anthony J. Beddington, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Bradford S. Gentry, Carol A. Hunsberger, Anne-Marie Izac, Matias E. Margulis, Tobias Plieninger, Heike Schroeder, and Caroline Upton, 2013 \u201cGlobal Land Governance: From Territory to Flow\u201d Current Opinions in Environmental Sustainability<\/em> 5(5): 522-527<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld and Benjamin Cashore, 2013 \u201cMixed Signals: NGO Campaigns and Non-State Market Driven (NSMD) Governance in an Export-Oriented Country\u201d Canadian Public Policy<\/em> 39(s2): 143-156<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld, Benjamin Cashore, and Stefan Renckens, 2013. \u201cGovernance Components in Private Regulation: Implications for Legitimacy, Authority and Effectiveness\u201d in N. Kanie, S. Andresen, and P.M. Haas (eds) Improving Global Environmental Governance: Best and Worst Practices for Improving International Climate Change Governance, pp 152-174. Routledge: London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Auld and Lars H. Gulbrandsen, 2013. \u201cPrivate Regulation in Global Environmental Governance\u201d in R. Falkner (ed) Handbook of Global Climate and Environmental Policy. Wiley-Blackwell Press: Oxford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelly Levin, Benjamin Cashore, Steven Bernstein, and Graeme Auld, 2012. \u201cOvercoming the Tragedy of Super Wicked Problems: Constraining our Future Selves to Ameliorate Global Climate Change<\/a>\u201d Policy Sciences<\/em> 45(2): 123-152<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Funded Research<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

SSHRC Insight Grant \u201cGoverning Natural Resources in a Global Era: Actors, Practices, and Outcomes,\u201d Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: Hevina Dashwood, Alexandra Mallett, Lisa Mills, and Robert Slater), July 2013 to July 2018, $444,920<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Teaching<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Policy Analysis for Environmental Governance (University of Melbourne)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Movements, Markets, Resources (Yale University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian Resource Management (Yale University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Policy Analysis (Carleton University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Policy Institutions and Processes (Carleton University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Policy: Analysis, Implementation, and Evaluation (Carleton University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental Policy (Carleton University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Policy Analysis and Contemporary Governance (Carleton University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Supervisions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEcosystem Services and the Political Economy of Watershed Governance\u201d Matthew Retallack, Ph.D. candidate, School of Public Policy and Administration, co-supervisor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReinforcing the Legitimacy of the State after Conflict: Assessing the Institution Building \u2013 Legitimacy Paradox\u201d Ruby Dagher, Ph.D. candidate, School of Public Policy and Administration, supervisor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent editorships or academic offices<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Editorial Board, Business and Politics<\/a>, 2014 \u2013 present<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial Board, Global Environmental Politics<\/a>, 2013 \u2013 present<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial Board, Review of Policy Research<\/a>, 2012 \u2013 present<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distinctions and Awards<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Elected Member of the Royal Society of Canada\u2019s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists<\/a>, November 2017
\nRecognizes early and mid-career achievements for emerging Canadian intellectual leader<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-Winner \u201cLynton Keith Caldwell Prize,\u201d September 2016
\nAwarded by the American Political Science Association for the best book on environmental politics and policy for Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification<\/em><\/a>, Yale University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmerging Young Scholar Award,\u201d September 2016
\nAwarded by the American Political Science Association in recognition of a researcher, within ten years of their PhD degree, who is making notable contributions to the field of science, technology, and environmental politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honourable Mention \u201cHarold and Margaret Sprout Award,\u201d February 2015
\nAwarded by the International Studies Association for the best book in the field of international environmental policy and politics; received honourable mention for Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification<\/a> (Yale University Press, 2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University, August 2014 \u2013 June 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner \u201cHarold and Margaret Sprout Award,\u201d March 2005
\nAwarded by the International Studies Association for the best book in the field of international environmental policy and politics; co-winner with Benjamin Cashore and Deanna Newsom for Governing through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority<\/a> (Yale University Press, 2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2926,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Graeme","cu_people_last_name":"Auld","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[60],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-2924","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-public-policy-administration"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor","cu_people_degree":"BSc (University of British Columbia), MSc (Auburn University), PhD (Yale University)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"graeme.auld@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2259","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/g_auld","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}