South Africa's national REDD+ initiative: assessing the potential of the forestry sector on climate change mitigation

Rahlao, Sebataolo; Mantlana, Brian; Winkler, Harald; Knowles, Tony

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2011.11.013

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“…Even though forest-based climate change initiatives are effective in enhancing livelihood sustainability and resilience, extensive implementation and scaling up of forest-based adaptation initiatives in many developing countries are currently very limited (Chia et al 2013;Rahlao et al 2012). Similar trends were reported in African countries such as Cameroon, Uganda and Tanzania (Jindal et al 2008).…”

Section: Linking Socio-economic Reasons For Forest Dependence To Houssupporting

confidence: 63%

Socio-economic factors influencing household dependence on forests and its implication for forest-based climate change interventions

Ofoegbu

Chirwa

Francis

et al. 2017

Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science

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In most African countries, forest-based climate change intervention initiatives such as the nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) and national adaptation programme of actions (NAPAs) are widely accepted. This is mainly due to the fact that they are relevant in addressing multiple challenges associated with rural development, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and sustainable forest management. However, there are concerns about the implications of strategic and practical steps taken in this context on forest-dependent communities. Thus, there is need to reconcile local socio-economic vulnerabilities and forestbased climate change intervention initiatives. In the current study, socio-economic factors influencing households' dependence on forest resources and associated implications on climate change interventions were investigated. Proportionate stratified random sampling was used to select 366 households from forest-based rural communities in Vhembe District of South Africa. A structured questionnaire was administered to household heads in 21 villages.The Pearson Chi-square test was used to analyse the factors that influence household dependence on forest. The effects of household socioeconomic characteristics on households' forest dependence influencing factor were determined using the binary logit model. Up to 97 2 % of the respondents depended on the forest resources predominantly because of low costs associated with using them. It was observed that socio-economic characteristics of households such as farm husbandry skills, years of residence (53-65) in the community and age of respondents (≤ 38-65) significantly (P < 0.05) influenced use of the forest resources.Thus, effectiveness and sustainability of forest-based climate change intervention initiatives can be promoted if the socio-economic conditions prevailing within households in areas next to forests are improved.

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Section: Linking Socio-economic Reasons For Forest Dependence To Houssupporting

confidence: 63%

Socio-economic factors influencing household dependence on forests and its implication for forest-based climate change interventions

Ofoegbu

Chirwa

Francis

et al. 2017

Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science

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“…Some of these mitigation efforts, including REDD+, are starting to infl uence and reshape institutional arrangements for natural resource use and nature protection (see, for example, Visseren-Hamakers et al 2012 ). Both in eastern and southern African countries, carbon-related income is developing into a land-use option for private and communal landowners already involved in ecotourism (AWF 2012 ;Rahlao et al 2012 ). Potential synergies and confl icts between carbon-related programs and nature-based tourism have not been systematically studied to date, but will likely shake up the institutional arrangements with conservation and development objectives in the future.…”

Section: Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

A Dynamic Perspective on Institutional Arrangements for Tourism, Conservation and Development in Eastern and Southern Africa

Wijk

Lamers

Duim

2014

Institutional Arrangements for Conservation, Development and Tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa

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This book set out to present an overview of different institutional arrangements for tourism, conservation and development in eastern and southern Africa. These approaches range from conservancies in Namibia to community-based organizations in Botswana, private game reserves in South Africa and tourism conservation enterprises in Kenya, as well as transfrontier conservation areas. This chapter presents a comparative analysis of these arrangements. We highlight that most arrangements emerged in the 1990s, aiming to address some of the challenges of 'fortress' conservation by combining principles of community-based natural resource management with a neoliberal approach to conservation. This is evident in the use of tourism as the main mechanism for accruing benefi ts from wildlife. We also illustrate the empirical relevance of these novel arrangements by charting their growth in numbers and discussing how these arrangements take various forms. We furthermore highlight that although these arrangements have secured large amounts of land for conservation, they have also generated governance challenges and disputes on tourism benefi t-sharing, affecting the stability of these arrangements as producers of socioeconomic and conservation benefi ts. We conclude this chapter by exploring how climate change, developments in tourism and trophy hunting, governance challenges and the emergence of new forms of conservation fi nance are likely to instigate change in institutional arrangements for tourism, conservation and development, as well as open up new directions for research.

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“…The related National Forests Act adopted in the same year induced the devolution of authority in the field of forest management to local communities, while it does not grant them formal rights. Instead, it locates forest ownership at the national government level and envisions a strategy of forest co‐management (Rahlao, Mantlana, Winkler, & Knowles, ; Wily, ). In 2004, the National Forest Act has been amended by a participatory forest management regime (Brown, ).…”

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“…Instead, it locates forest ownership at the national government level and envisions a strategy of forest co-management (Rahlao, Mantlana, Winkler, & Knowles, 2012;Wily, 2002). In 2004, the National Forest Act has been amended by a participatory forest management regime (Brown, 2009).…”

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Carbon Governance Arrangements and the Nation‐State: The Reconfiguration of Public Authority in Developing Countries

Hickmann

Fuhr

Höhne

et al. 2017

Public Admin & Development

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Summary Several scholars concerned with global policy‐making have recently pointed to a reconfiguration of authority in the area of climate politics. They have shown that various new carbon governance arrangements have emerged, which operate simultaneously at different governmental levels. However, despite the numerous descriptions and mapping exercises of these governance arrangements, we have little systematic knowledge on their workings within national jurisdictions, let alone about their impact on public‐administrative systems in developing countries. Therefore, this article opens the “black box” of the nation‐state and explores how and to what extent two different arrangements, that is, Transnational City Networks and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, generate changes in the distribution of public authority in nation‐states and their administrations. Building upon conceptual assumptions that the former is likely to lead to more decentralized, and the latter to more centralized policy‐making, we provide insights from case studies in Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, and India. In a nutshell, our analysis underscores that Transnational City Networks strengthen climate‐related actions taken by cities without ultimately decentralizing climate policy‐making. On the other hand, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation tends to reinforce the competencies of central governments, but apparently does not generate a recentralization of the forestry sector at large.

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South Africa's national REDD+ initiative: assessing the potential of the forestry sector on climate change mitigation

Cited by 18 publications

References 11 publications

Socio-economic factors influencing household dependence on forests and its implication for forest-based climate change interventions

Socio-economic factors influencing household dependence on forests and its implication for forest-based climate change interventions

A Dynamic Perspective on Institutional Arrangements for Tourism, Conservation and Development in Eastern and Southern Africa

Carbon Governance Arrangements and the Nation‐State: The Reconfiguration of Public Authority in Developing Countries

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