About Me

Christine Overdevest received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 2005. She works in the areas of enviromental and natural resources sociology.  Her current research evaluates multi-stakeholder certification and standard setting schemes.  She teaches classes at the Univerity of Florida in environmental and economic sociology.   Recent publications include Overdevest, C. and M.G. Rickenbach.  In press. Forest Certification and Institutional Governance:  An Empirical Study of Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Holders in the United States.  Forest Policy & Economics,  Overdevest, C.  2005.  Information Politics, Treadmill Politics, and Public Policy:  Toward a Political Economy of Information.  Organization and Environment.  18: 72-90, Overdevest, C.  2004.  Codes of Conduct and Standard Setting in the Forest Sector:  Constructing Markets for Democracy?  Industrial Relations/Relations Industrielles.  59(1):172-198, and Overdevest, C.., Orr. C.S., and K. Stepenuck   2004.