Linking notions of justice and project outcomes in carbon offset forestry projects: Insights from a comparative study in Uganda

Fisher, Janet; Cavanagh, Connor Joseph; Sikor, Thomas; Mwayafu, David

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.12.055

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“…Under such settings, when applied, it brushes aside pre-existing distributional, recognitional, and procedural inequities, leading to displacement and exclusion of disadvantaged people from accessing resources (e.g. Fisher et al., 2018).…”

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“…Claims and their associated justice framings are usually unevenly persuasive; due to existing differences in power and social identities, some become more noticeable while others are concealed. In conservation interventions, it is common to find some claims getting support as being morally right, and others encountering substantial disapproval (Fisher et al., 2018; He and Sikor, 2015). However, what is morally right or wrong within the interventions is defined by universal conceptions on what constitute justice and injustice (Martin, 2017).…”

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“…An emerging trend in political ecology has recently applied the multidimensional framework to study justice using empirical approaches (e.g. Fisher et al., 2018; He and Sikor, 2015; Sikor et al., 2014). Yet many of these accounts use it to demonstrate how pluralistic justice logics inform conservation practices within the dynamics of PES initiatives, rather than initiatives that target sustainable production.…”

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In pursuit of multidimensional justice: Lessons from a charcoal ‘greening’ project in Tanzania

Mabele

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Over the last 30 years, Tanzania has adopted different policy approaches to conserve forests. However, the idea that providing livelihood benefits is a key strategy for achieving conservation effectiveness has persisted throughout the shift from earlier integrated conservation and development approach to the ‘newer’ green economy. This one-dimensional conception of what ‘local people’ value and why precludes a clear understanding of substantive social justice considerations – what is being contested, why, and by whom – when conflicts arise in policy implementation settings. Using a green economy project that addresses charcoal-driven forest loss in Kilosa, the paper examines a conflict between forest conservation and farming and studies the variegated notions of justice that farmers express in relation to the conflict. The paper builds upon a developing strand in the political ecology literature, namely of empirical analyses of rural people’s justice conceptions in environmental conservation, to demonstrate analytic and practical values of a multidimensional justice framework. It illustrates how the framework can help to assess and reframe environmental interventions, going beyond one-dimensional conceptions, to focus attention on the diverse ways in which justice can be recognised or denied at different levels and in different ways for different groups of people. Particularly, it highlights that context matters, as despite the distributional ‘success’ of the project, disregarded concerns over procedural and recognition justice dimensions led to farmers’ loss of land, covert resistance, and continued struggles over compensations. This paper therefore argues that being attentive to a range of justice dimensions can expose locally valued and contested conservation aspects, as well as guide more just environmental conservation.

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Section: Applying a Multidimensional Justice Framework To A Charcoal mentioning

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Section: Applying a Multidimensional Justice Framework To A Charcoal mentioning

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In pursuit of multidimensional justice: Lessons from a charcoal ‘greening’ project in Tanzania

Mabele

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Adopting Fraser's model, as environmental social scientists including geographers do, provides a useful way to parse the legalistic dimension of recognition, wherein recognition comes to stand for peoples’ explicitly articulated rights claims from institutions (e.g., Fisher et al., , p. 266; Martin, , pp. 91–93; Wilson & Jackson, ; Zeitoun et al., ).…”

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Amazonian struggles for recognition

Fraser

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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Since the 1988 Constitution, forest peoples of Brazilian Amazonia have been struggling for territorial recognition. Yet studies of recognition in post colonial contexts, based on cases with clear settler/indigenous distinctions, are highly critical of recognition, seeing it as a form of “neoliberal multiculturalism,” a co‐option of subaltern identities with limited emancipatory potential. I question these critiques by examining struggles for legal and intersubjective recognition of subaltern identity categories “Índio” and “Agroextractivista” and corresponding territories of the “Terra Indigena” and “Reserva Extractivista” on the Madeira and Tapajós Rivers in Brazilian Amazonia, where heterogeneous origins of forest peoples belie simple settler/indigenous distinctions. I engage a key question, the relationships of subaltern peoples with state institutions, and highlight a finding, the relevance of the state's “proximity,” often underestimated in the literature. I build a theory of decolonial recognition combining Axel Honneth's idea of recognition as love, rights and solidarity with David Scott's late‐Foucauldian reworking of Frantz Fanon. Herein, the Fanonian colonised subjectivity is shaped by the negation of love, rights and solidarity, that is to say, misrecognition. The subject requires legal and intersubjective recognition in order to positively incorporate love, rights and solidarity into their “practices of techniques of the self.” On the Tapajós, territorial struggles are more successful owing to a stronger sphere of legal recognition – the presence of state institutions – and a history of Church and union grassroots organisation, both supporting greater intersubjective recognition among forest peoples. On the Madeira, a much weaker sphere of legal recognition has resulted in a situation of intractable conflict around territorial struggles which have correspondingly less intersubjective recognition. I conclude that a theory of decolonial recognition is of considerable utility in elucidating the dynamics of subaltern emancipatory struggles for territory.

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“…Despite these anecdotal observations, geographers have so far attached relatively little importance to such (mis)translations of expert knowledge or how they inform our understanding of the logics and limitations of neoliberal environmental governance. Notable exceptions include Fisher (2013), who engaged in some detail with the justice dimensions of community members' misunderstandings of forest interventions and highlighted their importance for assessing accountability and conditionality requirements in Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes (see also Fisher et al 2018). Similarly, Otto (2018) discussed the confusions surrounding the nature of the carbon market in the Scolel'te project in Mexico and the distrust and suspicions these gave rise to when adverse market conditions caused payments to participants to dry up.…”

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Rendering Local: The Politics of Differential Knowledge in Carbon Offset Governance

Carton

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Environmental governance relies on the translation of socioecological knowledge across disciplines and cultural-political boundaries. Comparatively few studies have, however, examined how such expert knowledge is translated back into the local contexts where projects are implemented. This article explores these processes of translation for the case of forest-based carbon offsetting using a case study of the Trees for Global Benefits project in Uganda. Based on successive fieldwork in two project regions, it examines how climate change, carbon, and carbon trading are understood by project participants and what work these understandings perform as part of the governance of carbon offsets. The article identifies a distinctive "rendering local" of project logics and rationale, which occurs in part as a management strategy by the project organizers and is in part the outcome of participants' own articulations of offsetting concepts within the socioecological contexts in which they are embedded. Although these often unruly translations provide tensions and contradictions within the sociomaterial assemblage that constitutes the offset market, they also serve to facilitate project management. The dynamics identified here highlight the uneven geographies of environmental knowledge as instrumental to the governance of the offset market, therefore warranting closer attention by scholars studying carbon forestry and neoliberal environmentalism more generally.环境治理依赖于跨学科、跨文化和政治边界的社会生物学知识转化。但是，很少有研究探讨如何将这些专业知识转化到当地环境中的项目实施。本文以乌干达树木全球效益项目为例，探讨了森林碳补偿的转化过程。通过对这两个项目区域进行的连续实地工作，本文考察了项目参与者对气候变化、碳和碳交易的理解，及这些理解在碳补偿治理中的作用。本文找出了项目逻辑和基本原理独特的"地方解读"，这是项目组织者管理策略的一部分，也是参与者在其所在社会生态环境中自行表达的部分结果。尽管这些转化难以管理，在构成补偿市场的社会物质组合中会引发紧张和矛盾，但也有助于项目管理。本文发现的动态强调了环境知识的地理不均衡现象可以对补偿市场治理提供帮助，以确保碳林业以及更广义的新自由主义环保主义学者更密切的关注。关键词: 碳林业，碳补偿，环境治理，知识政治，新自由主义自然。 La gobernanza ambiental descansa en la traducci on del conocimiento socioecol ogico a trav es de las disciplinas y de las fronteras pol ıtico-culturales. Comparativamente, sin embargo, pocos estudios han examinado c omo se adapta tal conocimiento de experticia a los contextos locales donde se est an implementando proyectos. Este art ıculo explora estos procesos de traducci on para el caso de la compensaci on de carbono con base en pr acticas forestales, usando un estudio de caso del proyecto Arboles para Beneficio Global, en Uganda. A partir de sucesivos trabajos de campo en dos regiones del proyecto, el estudio examina c omo son interpretados el cambio clim atico, el carbono y el comercio del carbono por los participantes en el proyecto y qu e funci on cumplen estos entendimientos como parte de la gobernanza de la compensaci on del carbono. El art ıculo identifica una singular "representaci on local" de la l ogica y racionalidad del proyecto, la cual se da en parte como una estrategia de manejo por los organizadores del proyecto, parcialmente resultado de las propias articulaciones de los conceptos de compensaci on entre los participantes dentro de los contextos socioecol ogicos en los cuales se insertan...

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Linking notions of justice and project outcomes in carbon offset forestry projects: Insights from a comparative study in Uganda

Cited by 39 publications

References 34 publications

In pursuit of multidimensional justice: Lessons from a charcoal ‘greening’ project in Tanzania

In pursuit of multidimensional justice: Lessons from a charcoal ‘greening’ project in Tanzania

Amazonian struggles for recognition

Rendering Local: The Politics of Differential Knowledge in Carbon Offset Governance

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