Representation through Privatisation: Regionalisation of Forest Governance in Tambacounda, Senegal

Ece, Melis

doi:10.4103/cs.cs_16_104

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“…For example, there are cases of REDD+ projects being used locally to support the violent eviction of people from the land in many countries (Himmelfarb, 2012;Cavanagh and Benjaminsen, 2014;Grainger and Geary, 2011;Nel and Hill, 2013;Lyons and Westoby, 2014;Forest Peoples Programme, 2014;Beymer-Farris and Bassett, 2012). In other cases, national definitions are imposed and the subsequent mappings are used to support land privatization agendas and forest commodification with the objective of removing commonly held land from collective ownership (Ece, 2015). Critical to the success of REDD+, there are also problems in identifying the financial beneficiaries of carbon payments because the forested land lacks natural ownership divisions.…”

Section: Forest Definitions and Redd+mentioning

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Fuzzy difference and data primitives: a transparent approach for supporting different definitions of forest in the context of REDD+

Comber

Kuhn

2018

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Abstract. This paper explores the use of fuzzy difference methods in order to understand the differences between forest classes. The context for this work is provided by REDD+, which seeks to reduce the net emissions of greenhouse gases by rewarding the conservation of forests in developing countries. REDD+ requires that local inventories of forest are undertaken and payments are made on the basis of the amount of forest (and associated carbon storage). At the most basic level this involves classifying land into forest and non-forest. However, the critical issues affecting the uptake, buy-in and ultimately the success of REDD+ are the lack of universally agreed definition of forest to support REDD+ mapping activities, and where such a definition is imposed, the marginalization of local community voices and local landscape conceptualizations. This tension is at the heart of REDD+. This paper addresses these issues by linking methods to quantify changes in fuzzy land cover to the concept of data primitives, which have been previously proposed as a suitable approach to move between land cover classes with different semantics. These are applied to case study that quantifies the difference in areas for two definitions of forest derived from the GLC and FAO definitions of forest. The results show how data primitives allow divergent concepts of forest to be represented and mapped from the same data and how the fuzzy sets approach can be used to quantify the differences and non-intersections of different concepts of forest. Together these methods provide for transparent translations between alternative conceptualizations of forest, allowing for plural notions of forest to be mapped and quantified. In particular, they allow for moving from an object-based notion of forest (and land cover in general) to a field-based one, entirely avoiding the need for forest boundaries.

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Section: Forest Definitions and Redd+mentioning

confidence: 99%

Fuzzy difference and data primitives: a transparent approach for supporting different definitions of forest in the context of REDD+

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Kuhn

2018

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“…(The PCRs were present, yet had no say, despite the fact that IVC meetings took place in their headquarters, Maison communautaire. Also see [71] for an analysis of PCR exclusion. )…”

Section: Development Projects From 1998: Continued Differentiated Accmentioning

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Causes for Adaptation: Access to Forests, Markets and Representation in Eastern Senegal

Faye¹,

Ribot

2017

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Abstract:Adaptation is a means of reducing vulnerability. So, understanding causes of vulnerability should help to achieve adaptation. Why, then, are people vulnerable? Why do expected dry spells turn into hunger? Why do mere droughts become disasters? This article shows some of the multi-scale processes that make the lives of people in the forests of Eastern Senegal precarious; it outlines processes that reduce forest villagers' access to resources, lucrative markets and political representation. These are the processes that place villagers at risk when exposed to stressors-climate or otherwise. In this case, the Forest Service applies double standards-favoring urban merchants while subordinating forest villagers-through the making, interpretation, implementation and circumvention of laws and regulations. The wealth of the poor is continuously expropriated by a well-adapted extractive apparatus, enriching urban merchants while leaving villagers incapacitated. These people may lack adaptive capacity or capability or assets or social protections, but those lacks have causes. "Adaptation" without identifying and addressing these root causes is palliative at best. Security requires emancipatory transformations.

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“Let me tell you your problems”. Using Q methodology to elicit latent problem perceptions about invasive alien species

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Representation through Privatisation: Regionalisation of Forest Governance in Tambacounda, Senegal

Cited by 4 publications

References 30 publications

Fuzzy difference and data primitives: a transparent approach for supporting different definitions of forest in the context of REDD+

Fuzzy difference and data primitives: a transparent approach for supporting different definitions of forest in the context of REDD+

Causes for Adaptation: Access to Forests, Markets and Representation in Eastern Senegal

“Let me tell you your problems”. Using Q methodology to elicit latent problem perceptions about invasive alien species

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