Investigating Forest Governance Through Environmental Discourses: An Amazonian Case Study

Bidone, Francisco

doi:10.1080/10549811.2021.1933537

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“…These arenas have embraced the win–win ecological modernization discourse, which is challenged by a minor reformist civic environmentalist discourse, especially through NGO's (Di Gregorio et al, 2017). By means of localized assessment on the REDD+ initiative, Bidone (2021) demonstrates the discursive adherence to ecological modernization terms across different organizational levels and stakeholders within the initiative. The centrality given to mild reformist or reconciliatory ecological modernization discourses might hamper long‐term challenge of drivers of deforestation via on‐ground REDD+ policies (Di Gregorio et al, 2017).…”

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Driving governance beyond ecological modernization: REDD+ and the Amazon Fund

Bidone

2021

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This investigation focuses on the design and formulation of the Brazilian Amazon Fund—perhaps the boldest REDD+ oriented initiative to date. Study draws its hypothesis from the understanding that the Amazon Fund operated until recently based on a nuanced integration of two current trends in environmental governance: (i) institutionalization of ecological modernization theories and (ii) establishment of multilevel, multi‐stakeholder governance. To visualize such integration, this work deploys discourse analysis and text‐mining techniques to the Amazon Fund's policy documents. Overall findings suggest the ecological modernization agenda is predominant within the Amazon Fund. The following discussion articulates with environmental studies' critical scholarship to debate the dominance of ecological modernism as it is claimed to inherently narrow the scope of perspectives, knowledge, and values integrated into sustainability policies. Whereas the opposite should occur, considering multi‐stakeholder environmental governance mechanisms propose to incorporate a plurality of legitimate perspectives and knowledge basis. In these terms, innovative approaches that envision “win‐win” solutions for environmental policy may eventually rest in endorsing alternative framings about nature and society that move away from the constrained paradigms of efficiency within ecological modernization theories and discourse. The relevance of this work lays in the debate that acknowledges the importance of driving environmental governance mechanisms in tropical developing countries to new viable alternatives. In broader terms, the importance of this debate emerges in the proposal of changes that move government, business, and civil society away from usual policies (and interests) underpinning policies for land use and the forest sector.

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confidence: 99%