Implementing REDD+: lessons from analysis of forest governance

Kanowski, Peter; McDermott, Constance L.; Cashore, Benjamin

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2010.11.007

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“…As climate change is recognized as a global policy issue in need of immediate action, REDD? is receiving growing attention for its potential role in abatement (Kanowski et al 2011). The application of carbon mechanisms to bamboo is problematic because of bamboos ambiguous position regarding its relationship to timber.…”

Section: Carbon Sequestrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can’t See the (Bamboo) Forest for the Trees: Examining Bamboo’s Fit Within International Forestry Institutions

Buckingham

Lou

2013

AMBIO

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Over the centuries, governments and international agencies have developed a wide range of institutions to manage timber resources and conserve values provided by treed lands. Concerns regarding the sustainable supply of timber have provided opportunities for the development of substitute resources; however, bamboo and other non-timber forest resources have not been a part of the development of these institutions. Bamboo is a unique Non-Timber Forest Product, as it is often classified as forest or timber, and therefore must adhere to the same regulations as timber. Given the recent global expansion of bamboo, it is timely to examine the interplay between bamboo and the traditional institutions of forest governance. This paper aims to contribute to debates regarding cognitive institutional constraints on the development of substitute natural resources using bamboo as a case study, with specific focus on the applicability of Forest Stewardship Council certification, timber legality verification and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation to bamboos.

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Section: Carbon Sequestrationmentioning

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Can’t See the (Bamboo) Forest for the Trees: Examining Bamboo’s Fit Within International Forestry Institutions

Buckingham

Lou

2013

AMBIO

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“…There is a possibility that the project-based approach that has so far been most common for the implementation of REDD+ may create situations where achievements are made at the project level, but deforestation continues across the country as a whole (Karsenty et al, 2014). Third, although forest management guidelines in developing countries are often as strict as those in developed nations (Kanowski et al, 2011), corrupt governance practices may hamper the elimination of unsustainable forest practices (Luttrell et al, 2014), or hamper trustworthy measurements and data collection (cf. Corbera and Schroeder, 2011).…”

Section: Implementation Problems and The Effectiveness Of Forest-climmentioning

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Climate change and deforestation: The evolution of an intersecting policy domain

Buizer

Humphreys

Jong

2014

Environmental Science & Policy

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Forests and climate change are increasingly dealt with as interconnected policy issues. Both the potential synergies and policy conflicts between forest conservation and restoration and climate change mitigation now receive sustained and high level attention from academic, policy analysis and practitioner communities across the globe. Arguably the most pronounced contemporary policy manifestation of this is the debate on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (or REDD+) by which governments and private investors from developed countries may compensate actors in tropical forest countries for reducing forest loss beneath an agreed baseline. Problems of climate-forest policies implementation and governance, however, can also be found in countries such as Canada, the USA, the UK and Australia. The future of instruments like REDD+ is uncertain with growing critiques on payment and performance-based mechanisms and unresolved issues of governance, government and accountability. This paper, and the special issue it introduces, illustrates that in the REDD+ debate many contentious issues have resurfaced from past debates. These issues include the participation and rights of local communities in forest policy and management; the relationship between internationally agreed payment and performance-based programmes and formal democratic decision-making processes and structures; the complexities of rights to carbon versus tenure rights; and the ways in which -in spite of the high expectations of both developing and developed countries to combat carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation through the REDD+ mechanism -effective climate-focused forestry policies are seldom found in most tropical forest-rich countries. REDD+ is now very much the dominant discourse at the forest-climate interface, and one with a primary focus on measurability to communicate carbon mitigation results across various levels. However, this serves to disperse and displace, rather than resolve, policy-making on non-carbon values.

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“…These originate in the wider concept of CBNRM and shape institutional structures because control over natural resources is devolved. This is illustrated by successful CB-PES projects in forest areas, which have involved the establishment of local forest user groups that monitor, regulate and manage resource use and conservation efforts, typically at a village level [10,54,55].…”

Section: Community-based Natural Resource Management and Community-bamentioning

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“…Most CB-PES project activity and analysis has had an ecological focus on forest systems, particularly in Latin America or Asia [10]. However, rangelands are estimated to store 30 per cent of the world's terrestrial carbon [11], including approximately 20 per cent of global soil carbon [12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Lessons from community-based payment for ecosystem service schemes: from forests to rangelands

Dougill

Stringer

Leventon

et al. 2012

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Climate finance investments and international policy are driving new community-based projects incorporating payments for ecosystem services (PES) to simultaneously store carbon and generate livelihood benefits. Most community-based PES (CB-PES) research focuses on forest areas. Rangelands, which store globally significant quantities of carbon and support many of the world's poor, have seen little CB-PES research attention, despite benefitting from several decades of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) projects. Lessons from CBNRM suggest institutional considerations are vital in underpinning the design and implementation of successful community projects. This study uses documentary analysis to explore the institutional characteristics of three African community-based forest projects that seek to deliver carbon-storage and povertyreduction benefits. Strong existing local institutions, clear land tenure, community control over land management decision-making and up-front, flexible payment schemes are found to be vital. Additionally, we undertake a global review of rangeland CBNRM literature and identify that alongside the lessons learned from forest projects, rangeland CB-PES project design requires specific consideration of project boundaries, benefit distribution, capacity building for community monitoring of carbon storage together with awareness-raising using decision-support tools to display the benefits of carbon-friendly land management. We highlight that institutional analyses must be undertaken alongside improved scientific studies of the carbon cycle to enable links to payment schemes, and for them to contribute to poverty alleviation in rangelands.

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Implementing REDD+: lessons from analysis of forest governance

Cited by 154 publications

References 35 publications

Can’t See the (Bamboo) Forest for the Trees: Examining Bamboo’s Fit Within International Forestry Institutions

Can’t See the (Bamboo) Forest for the Trees: Examining Bamboo’s Fit Within International Forestry Institutions

Climate change and deforestation: The evolution of an intersecting policy domain

Lessons from community-based payment for ecosystem service schemes: from forests to rangelands

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