The United States' Race to Certify Sustainable Forestry: Non-State Environmental Governance and the Competition for Policy-Making Authority¹This article presents the US chapter, and relevant parts of Chapter One, to our book, Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-state Authority (New Haven: Yale University Press). Yale University Press has encouraged us to seek publication of this chapter in a peer-reviewed journal: the bulk of the research was carried out under a competitive grant from the USDA's National Research Initiative Markets and Trade Program and the Canadian Embassy's Canadian Studies Faculty Research Grant Program. We wish to thank the following individuals for comments on earlier versions: Scott Wallinger, Fran Raymond Price, John Heissenbuttel, Jamie Lawson, Errol Meidinger, Charlene Zietsma, Erika Sasser, Michele Michelleti, Rudi Ru¨diger Wurzel, Magnus Bostrom, Ilan Vertinsky, Michael Conroy, Aseem Prakash, Kernaghan Webb, Jackie Best, Andy White, Jason McNichol, Connie McDermott, Ben Gunneburg, Justin Stead, Stuart Goodall, Tom Jorling, Tim Mealey, Nigel Sizer, Rick Cantrell, Richard Donovan and Heiko Leideker.

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