Complexities and surprises in local resistance to neoliberal conservation: Multiple environmentalities, technologies of the self and the poststructural geography of local engagement with REDD+

Asiyanbi, Adeniyi; Ogar, Edwin; Akintoye, Oluyemi Ayorinde

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.12.008

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“…Projects may also stall or fail exactly because they are locally unacceptable. Research on carbon forestry and REDD+ has demonstrated how local resistance shapes interventions and can defy carbon sequestration ambitions (Asiyanbi, Ogar, & Akintoye, 2019;Benjaminsen, 2014;McAfee & Shapiro, 2010). And, of course, the use of arson and the burning of forests as an effective form of local resistance to unfair forms of rule dates back much further (Agrawal, 2005;J.…”

Section: Justice and Ethics In The Uneven Geographies Of Carbon Remmentioning

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Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal

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WIREs Climate Change

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Recent IPCC assessments highlight a key role for large-scale carbon removal in meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement. This focus on removal, also referred to as negative emissions, is suggestive of novel opportunities, risks, and challenges in addressing climate change, but tends to build on the narrow techno-economic framings that characterize integrated assessment modeling. While the discussion on negative emissions bears important parallels to a wider and older literature on carbon sequestration and carbon sinks, this earlier scholarship-particularly from the critical social sciences-is seldom engaged with by the negative emissions research community. In this article, we survey this "long history" of carbon removal and seek to draw out lessons for ongoing research and the emerging public debate on negative emissions. We argue that research and policy on negative emissions should proceed not just from projections of the future, but also from an acknowledgement of past controversies, successes and failures. In particular, our review calls attention to the irreducibly political character of carbon removal imaginaries and accounting practices and urges acknowledgement of past experiences with the implementation of (small-scale) carbon sequestration projects. Our review in this way highlights the importance of seeing continuity in the carbon removal discussion and calls for more engagement with existing social science scholarship on the subject. Acknowledging continuity and embracing an interdisciplinary research agenda on carbon removal are important aspects in making climate change mitigation research more responsible, and a precondition to avoid repeating past mistakes and failures.

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Section: Justice and Ethics In The Uneven Geographies Of Carbon Remmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal

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Asiyanbi

Beck

et al. 2020

WIREs Climate Change

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“…Such political and social lock-ins are produced and reproduced by different ways of governing at different scales, including through the internalization by local communities of dominant political and economic discourses. While faced with the moral burden of the assumptions of local deforestation in REDD+, local communities also seek alignment with global carbon forestry discourses to resist land dispossession by the state for infrastructure development (Asiyanbi et al , 2019), and communities are invoked both as beneficiaries and implementation agents (Skutsch & Turnhout, 2018). This opens up opportunities for participation and for communities to take advantage of dominant framings and access knowledge and resources (Erb, 2012), but it also contributes to lock-ins and the side-lining of alternatives.…”

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Unearthing the myths of global sustainable forest governance

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Non-technical summary Despite efforts to address the global forest crisis, deforestation and degradation continue, so we need to urgently revisit possible solutions. A failure to halt the global forest crisis contributes to climate change and biodiversity loss and will continue to result in inequalities in access to, and benefits from, forest resources. In this paper, we unpack a series of powerful myths about forests and their management. By exposing and better understanding these myths and what makes them so persistent, we have the basis to make the social and political changes needed to better manage and protect forests globally.

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“…The majority of PES initiatives have largely defied the economistic model, including legitimacy and social justice criteria in their design in an attempt to maximize both environmental and social outcomes (Kariuki et al, 2018;Leimona et al, 2015). Consideration of distributive equity in programme design is often informed by pre-existing development priorities and norms, particularly when being designed and managed by states, while in other cases concerns emerge and are enacted from the bottom-up actions of specific stakeholders (Asiyanbi et al, 2019;Corbera, 2015;He and Sikor, 2015). Procedural equity has been less of a focus: many PES initiatives largely or entirely ignore the experience of women (Larson et al, 2018), the crucial role of attention to indigenous sovereignty and self-determination in PES schemes (Denham, 2017), or the difficulties of marginalized and poorer individuals in accessing PES (Betrisey et al, 2018;Lansing, 2014).…”

Section: Benefit Sharing and Equitymentioning

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Beyond Market Logics: Payments for Ecosystem Services as Alternative Development Practices in the Global South

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McElwee²,

Hecken³

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Development and Change

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Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) initiatives, which provide financial incentives for management practices thought to increase the production of environmental benefits, have expanded across the global South since the late 1990s. These initiatives have thus far been conceptualized rather narrowly; by their early proponents as a novel economic instrument for more 'rational', effective and efficient environmental policy or by their critics as an exogenously imposed conduit of hegemonic neoliberalism. This Introductory article to the special issue that follows advocates for and demonstrates a more grounded and historically-situated approach for understanding the conformation and outcomes of PES in actual practice. It proposes a framework for examining individual PES initiatives as shaped by dynamic interactions between imposed structure and the development pathways and situated agency of actors in the territories in which they are implemented. It finds that certain ubiquitous components of this approach-the valuation of nature, the creation of institutions and the negotiations that inevitably surround the distribution of benefits-provide potential openings for articulation and engagement that can allow these initiatives to be contested, adapted, hybridized or more fully co-opted and captured. This framework opens a pathway for more inclusive, nuanced and grounded research on PES and on market-based environment and development policies more broadly.

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Complexities and surprises in local resistance to neoliberal conservation: Multiple environmentalities, technologies of the self and the poststructural geography of local engagement with REDD+

Cited by 55 publications

References 60 publications

Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal

Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal

Unearthing the myths of global sustainable forest governance

Beyond Market Logics: Payments for Ecosystem Services as Alternative Development Practices in the Global South

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