Trade-offs, co-benefits and safeguards: current debates on the breadth of REDD+

Visseren-Hamakers, I.J.; McDermott, Constance L.; Vijge, Marjanneke J.; Cashore, Benjamin

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2012.10.005

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“…and 4) How should REDD+ should be financed: through market or fund-based sources? These four questions were identified through extensive literature reviews as some of the most important scholarly and political debates affecting REDD+ governance (Vijge, 2015;Gupta et al, 2012;Visseren-Hamakers et al, 2012a, b). We analyze four sets of storylines that constitute ranges of answers to the four questions.…”

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Framing national REDD+ benefits, monitoring, governance and finance: A comparative analysis of seven countries

Vijge

Brockhaus

Gregorio

et al. 2016

Global Environmental Change

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Framing national REDD+ benefits, monitoring, governance and finance: A comparative analysis of seven countries

Vijge

Brockhaus

Gregorio

et al. 2016

Global Environmental Change

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“…The REDD+ objectives are expected not only to reduce emissions, but also to improve forest governance (Sikor 2010) through national safeguards, which help to ensure accountability, participation, transparency, and legitimacy in resource governance (Phelps et al 2010, UNFCCC 2010, Murphy 2011, Chaskin et al 2012, Visseren-Hamakers et al 2012). …”

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The REDD+ policy arena in Vietnam: participation of policy actors

Pham¹,

Gregorio²,

Carmenta³

et al. 2014

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ABSTRACT. Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) has gained increasing global attention because of its potential to reduce carbon emissions and improve forest governance. Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation requires successful inclusive decision making and accountability. However, there have been limited empirical studies that examine the effectiveness of the current participatory mechanism used in REDD+. Our research analyzes the participation of policy actors in the development of the REDD+ instrument in Vietnam. We are interested in how the political context and the different interests of actors influence the degree of participation in national REDD+ policy decision making. We explored participation through the analysis of the mechanisms, e.g., how actors involve and participate in decision making, and dynamics of participation, e.g., highly centralized policy event vs. donor led event. The study aims to answer three research questions: (1) Who is involved in national REDD+ policy making and what are their interests in participating in core political events? (2) What level of participation do the different political actors have in core political events? and (3) To what extent do the outcomes, e.g., regulations and strategies, of REDD+ policy events incorporate different preferences of policy actors? Our findings highlighted the dominant role of government agencies in REDD+ policy making, which leaves limited political space for nonstate actors, e.g., NGOs and civil society organizations (CSOs), in Vietnam to exert an influence on the final policy outputs. Even in this highly centralized context, however, we found evidence to suggest that some political space in decision making is given to nonstate actors. Within this space, such actors are able to propose alternative policy options. Ensuring inclusive decision making and accountability in the Vietnam context requires a shift in current governance from traditional top-down approaches to a more participatory form of decision making.

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“…We find this perspective useful to foreground the politics in REDD+ design and implementation by scrutinising the convergence of actors, the interplay of multiple interests, and the interactions of power, histories and geographies that underpin the framing and the implementation of REDD+ [31]. Through our case studies we demonstrate how REDD+ design is underpinned by and foregrounds ostensibly inclusive visions that are malleable, optimistic and all-encompassing, promising a win-win scenario for all parties [26][27][28][29]. Conversely, implementation of REDD+ has proceeded precisely through various forms of trade-off and exclusion of certain actors, interests, knowledges, practices, forest uses, and claims to resources [7,[30][31][32][33][34][35] .…”

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REDD+ in West Africa: Politics of Design and Implementation in Ghana and Nigeria

Asiyanbi¹,

Arhin²,

Isyaku³

2016

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This paper analyses the design and implementation of REDD+ in the West African region, an important global biodiversity area. Drawing on in-depth interviews, analysis of policy documents and observation of everyday activities, we sought to understand how REDD+ has been designed and implemented in Nigeria and Ghana. We draw on tools from political ecology to examine how, and why REDD+ takes the form it does in these countries. We focus on three key dimensions that emerged as strong areas of common emphasis in our case studies --capacity building, carbon visibility, and property rights. First, we show that, while REDD+ design generally foregrounds an ostensible inclusionary politics, its implementation is driven through various forms of exclusion. This contradictory inclusion-exclusion politics, which is partly emblematic of the neoliberal provenance of the REDD+ policy, is also a contingent reality and a strategy for navigating complexities and pursuing certain interests. Second, we show that though the emergent foci of REDD+ implementation in our case studies align with global REDD+ expectations, they yet manifest as historically and geographically contingent processes that reflect negotiated and contested relations among actors that constitute the specific national circumstance of each country. We conclude by reflecting on the wider implications of these findings for understanding REDD+ implementation more broadly.

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Trade-offs, co-benefits and safeguards: current debates on the breadth of REDD+

Cited by 157 publications

References 55 publications

Framing national REDD+ benefits, monitoring, governance and finance: A comparative analysis of seven countries

Framing national REDD+ benefits, monitoring, governance and finance: A comparative analysis of seven countries

The REDD+ policy arena in Vietnam: participation of policy actors

REDD+ in West Africa: Politics of Design and Implementation in Ghana and Nigeria

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