Certifying China: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Sustainability Governance in Emerging Economies , by Yixian Sun

prior and ongoing land use (p. 228). These findings once again underscore the importance of social justice – in the form of environmental or climate, and increasingly energy, justice – in the governance of transboundary CPRs, such as the climate. At the same time, they underline how hard it is to facilitate such debates at the global level where CPR-related negotiations, such as those during the Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, are often disconnected from local knowledge. The value of Larsson & Päiviö Sjaunja’s work does not lie in its direct generalizability but rather in the chance to study natural resource regimes from a ‘distance’ over a long period of time. The authors’ holistic approach places natural resource management within its social, economic, and political context – as famously advocated by the Institutional Analysis and Development and Social-Ecological Systems frameworks developed by the Bloomington School of Political Economy (p. 25). Apart from the parallels that may be drawn with modern-day TEL challenges, the book shows that integrated frameworks can provide fresh insights and perspectives even when they do not constitute the ‘focal point’ of the analysis (p. 31). Hopefully this contribution provides renewed inspiration for a similar uptake by legal scholars.