How is global climate policy interpreted on the ground? Insights from the analysis of local discourses about forest management and REDD+ in Indonesia

Milne, Sarah; Milne, Mary; Nurfatriani, Fitri; Tacconi, Luca

doi:10.5751/es-08363-210206

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“…The growing discourse on climate change integration into development policy agendas in developing countries (Milne et al 2016 ; Hajer 1995 ) has warranted a rethink of the process of climate information generation and adoption in adaptation actions (Tall et al 2018 ; 2013 ). Despite the steady growth in the production of information on climate risk and risk response strategy (Dilling and Lemos 2011 ; IPCC 2007 ), their accessibility and adoption have remained relatively limited.…”

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confidence: 99%

Collaboration Relations in Climate Information Production and Dissemination to Subsistence Farmers in Namibia

Ofoegbu

New

2020

Environmental Management

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Although climate information can aid farmers’ capacity to adapt to climate change, its accessibility and adoption by subsistence farmers hinge on the collaboration between farmers and climate information providers. This paper examines collaborations among actors in the process of climate information production and dissemination in the Namibian agricultural sector. The aim is to investigate the extent to which subsistence farmers are integrated into the collaboration process and the impact of the collaboration on the nature and accessibility of disseminated information. Key informant interviews and a questionnaire survey were used for data collection. Using network analysis, we estimated the networks’ density, clustering coefficient, and degree centrality. The study found that both the climate information production and dissemination networks have a high overall clustering coefficient (78% and 77%, respectively) suggesting a high rate of collaboration among the actors in the networks. However, the frequency of interactions between the actors in both the information production and dissemination networks and subsistence farmers remains very low. Nearly all surveyed farmers reported that they meet with information providers only once in a year. The effect of this poor interaction is reflected in the poor occurrence of feedback learning, which is needed to optimize channels of information dissemination to subsistence farmers and enhance the robustness of disseminated information. We recommend innovative communication means via mobile phone, promotion of peer-to-peer learning, flexible collaboration relations with more space for feedback from the users of climate information, and more attention to long-term forecasts and their implications for adaptive actions.

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Collaboration Relations in Climate Information Production and Dissemination to Subsistence Farmers in Namibia

Ofoegbu

New

2020

Environmental Management

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“…Given that REDD+ represents a loose amalgam of efforts for identifying funding sources, testing its feasibility in different localities, and readying candidate countries for implementation, a wealth of academic engagement with its discursive conceptualization in historically, culturally and ecologically diverse places at different scales around the globe has emerged (Aicher 2014, Astuti and McGregor 2015, Di Gregorio et al 2015, Van Der Hoff et al 2015, Vijge 2015, Milne et al 2016, Bastakoti and Davidsen 2017, Brown and MacLellan 2020, Mbatu 2020, Ramcilovik-Suominen and Nathan 2020. These discourses provide a framework for understanding how REDD+ stakeholders interpret the initiative, often situating it within their preexisting political objectives.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As REDD+ was rolled out into different localities, interacting with different societal conditions as it proceeded, its eventual localized constitutions took on tones that differed from its initial framings. Critical discourse analysis, bearing the capacity of representing meaning whether or not that meaning is associated with actors imbued with the power to govern, has been effectively used in this endeavor to demonstrate local contestation of REDD+ specifically and international climate policies in general (Somorin et al 2012, Astuti and McGregor 2015, Di Gregorio et al 2015, Van Der Hoff et al 2015, Milne et al 2016). Guyana and Suriname, however, have been largely overlooked in this discursive REDD+ literature.…”

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The extractive embrace: shifting expectations of conservation and extraction in the Guiana Shield

Collins

2021

Environmental Politics

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This paper demonstrates what the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative would have to do to satisfy the expectations of its diverse, local stakeholders. It connects the unmet expectations of REDD+ with a deepening reliance on extractive activity in the Guiana Shield. In it, I argue that extractive activity, which has always been the most significant driver of deforestation in the ecoregion, is further overtaking REDD+'s capacity for meeting expectations and development aspirations due to the combined failure of REDD+ to deliver vast amounts of promised funding to alter unsustainable development paths and the subsequent announcements of major oil discoveries in the territorial waters of the Guiana Shield. These arguments are based on data collected in the early phases of REDD+ readiness through a multisited ethnography, analyzed through a combination of Foucauldian discourse analysis and governmentality. I use critical discourse analysis to represent REDD +'s regional interpretations and governmentality to tease out the expectations embedded in these discourses. This combination supports my identification of what REDD+ would have to accomplish to be deemed successful in Guyana and Suriname, the only two REDD+ participating countries entirely within the Guiana Shield. In turn, this identification improves understandings of the relationship between failed or failing conservation and development initiatives and the subsequent intensification of extractive activity.

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“…We explore our framework for a sensitive issue in the REDD+ debate: the design and practices of monitoring forest carbon changes. Forest governance, and REDD+ in particular, have come under increasing scrutiny in discursive analyses that show how certain overarching storylines are emerging across political levels and forest regions (Bäckstrand and Lövbrand 2006, Arts and Buizer 2009, Wallbott 2014, Milne et al 2016, Ochieng et al 2016a. Bringing these insights together with the problem of institutional complexity, we ask which discursive storylines are coconstituted with the fragmented institutional landscape on REDD+ and which of these are dominant in REDD+ monitoring.…”

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Seeing the forest for the trees: identifying discursive convergence and dominance in complex REDD+ governance

Zelli¹,

Nielsen²,

Dubber³

2019

E&S

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Scholars of international law and international relations largely agree that global governance today, and global environmental governance in particular, is marked by institutional complexity. Environmental policy fields are, to varying degrees, governed by a plurality of institutions with different levels of legalization, membership, and jurisdictional scope, and with different degrees of coherence among them. The international governance architecture on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is a case in point. Located at the intersection of the governance systems on climate change, biodiversity, forestry, and development, REDD+ governance provides a stage where a large variety of intergovernmental and transnational institutions come together, collaborate, or compete on questions of standard-setting, financing, implementation, and evaluation. This complexity poses challenges to the effectiveness of REDD+ governance in general, but also to specific actor groups and organizations that lack the resources to understand and navigate such a fragmented governance landscape. Against this backdrop, we introduce an analytical framework to read and structure a complex governance architecture. The framework breaks new ground by adopting argumentative discourse analysis and the concept of storylines to the study of institutional complexity. We argue that beyond the messy surface of institutional complexity there may be a surprising degree of convergence, in the sense of discursive hierarchies that run across institutions, practices, and scales. We illustrate such a cross-cutting hierarchy for the complex REDD+ governance system, focusing on the sensitive issue of forest carbon monitoring. In our analysis of respective guidance documents and country reports, we find, underneath the institutional complexity across governance scales, a considerable dominance of techno-managerial perspectives and a preference for carbon commodification. This discursive hegemony and convergence resonates with the dominance of certain REDD+ funding institutions and the prioritization of the monitoring practice of remote sensing.

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How is global climate policy interpreted on the ground? Insights from the analysis of local discourses about forest management and REDD+ in Indonesia

Cited by 11 publications

References 42 publications

Collaboration Relations in Climate Information Production and Dissemination to Subsistence Farmers in Namibia

Collaboration Relations in Climate Information Production and Dissemination to Subsistence Farmers in Namibia

The extractive embrace: shifting expectations of conservation and extraction in the Guiana Shield

Seeing the forest for the trees: identifying discursive convergence and dominance in complex REDD+ governance

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