Tradeoffs in carbon commodification: A political ecology of common property forest governance

Osborne, Tracey

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.10.007

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“…Plantation forests now exist not just as future timber reserves, but as profitable sources of carbon credit (Osborne 2015). The debt-financed, high volume model of efficient, monocultural quick return forestry has in some parts of Australia collapsed (Beresford 2015), though a viable model persists in the Araucaria forests of southeast Queensland.…”

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Unintentional path dependence: Australian guitar manufacturing, bunya pine and legacies of forestry decisions and resource stewardship

Gibson

Warren

2017

Australian Geographer

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Australian guitar manufacturers are increasingly competitive globally, known for quality, design, and sustainability. Also distinguishing Australian guitar making is the use of native timbers¿a result of unforeseen historical endowments of available trees from earlier eras of colonial appropriation and State-sponsored planting. We develop a critical-materialist, and historical, evolutionary economic geography to trace an example of unintentional path dependence. Present craft-based manufacturing is linked to past regimes of resource stewardship. We illustrate this through the example of the bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii), an endemic tree with Indigenous significance now used industrially as a ¿tonewood¿ in guitar making. With limited geographic range, bunya was planted by State forestry during the inter-war period, considered ¿useful¿ in difficult locations where other industrial species failed. Reflecting prevailing stewardship norms, bunya trees were pruned and cared for, even though always considered marginal. Abandoned as an industrial forestry species, a half century later surviving cultivated bunya trees were rediscovered for guitar making. From this case, we argue that economic geographers remain attentive to material resource histories, as antecedent to contemporary configurations. Earlier decisions, ideologies and labour processes bestow present generations with available material resources, enabling new geographic concentrations of expertise. Acknowledging how historical materialities of resource stewardship reverberate unpredictably in the present, guitar makers and tonewood specialists are contemplating prospects for longer-term scarcities, and experimenting in anticipation of them now. Disciplines Education | Social and Behavioral Sciences Publication Details

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Unintentional path dependence: Australian guitar manufacturing, bunya pine and legacies of forestry decisions and resource stewardship

Gibson

Warren

2017

Australian Geographer

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“…Do mesmo modo, ocorre com a venda de créditos de carbono e com a água "virtual", que representam uma solução remediadora dos impactos, já que permitem que poluidores comprem "créditos de compensação" de outros fabricantes e nações que "poluem menos". Os Mecanismos de Desenvolvimento Limpo (MDLs) são vistos por correntes críticas como uma forma de comodificação da "poluição", já que estimulam um verdadeiro comércio de poluentes por meio do pagamento por serviços ambientais (Shiva, 2011;Cornetta, 2013;Osborne, 2015). Outro caso nomeado de comodificação do "lixo" foi estudado por Samson (2008) na África do Sul (pós-apartheid), em que a autora constatou que a concessão estatal da exploração de recicláveis ao setor privado (em detrimento dos catadores) reforçou as desigualdades sociais.…”

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As múltiplas faces da comodificação e a constituição da crítica acerca das práticas de consumo contemporâneas

Beck

Cunha

2017

Ciências Sociais Unisinos

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Este é um artigo de acesso aberto, licenciado por Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0), sendo permitidas reprodução, adaptação e distribuição desde que o autor e a fonte originais sejam creditados.As múltiplas faces da comodificação e a constituição da crítica acerca das práticas de consumo contemporâneasThe multiple forms of commodification and the criticism of contemporary consumer practices

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“…Forest policies to respond to climate change often involve either mitigation actions, such as biological carbon sequestration, to access and mobilize resources like land, trees, water, fish and other means of livelihood [29,30]. If access rights to forest change under REDD+ projects, this could render communities and households more vulnerable to the effects of climate change at local levels if traditional assets like forests that are used for adaptation responses (e.g., as a source of quick cash or as food) become inaccessible [25,31]. Alternatively, REDD+ could potentially strengthen local access rights to forests through increased financing to ensure their protection from outside deforestation pressures, thus possibly increasing communities' resilience to climate change [32,33].…”

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Using REDD+ Policy to Facilitate Climate Adaptation at the Local Level: Synergies and Challenges in Vietnam

McElwee

Nguyen

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Attention has recently been paid to how REDD+ mitigation policies are integrated into other sectoral policies, particularly those dealing with climate adaptation at the national level. But there is less understanding of how subnational policy and local projects are able to incorporate attention to adaptation; therefore, we use a case study in Vietnam to discuss how REDD+ projects and policies address both concerns of mitigation and adaptation together at subnational levels. Through stakeholder interviews, focus groups, and household surveys in three provinces of Vietnam with REDD+ activities, our research sought to understand if REDD+ policies and projects on the ground acknowledge that climate change is likely to impact forests and forest users; if this knowledge is built into REDD+ policy and activities; how households in forested areas subject to REDD+ policy are vulnerable to climate change; and how REDD+ activities can help or hinder needed adaptations. Our findings indicate that there continues to be a lack of coordination between mitigation and adaptation policies in Vietnam, particularly with regard to REDD+. Policies for forest-based climate mitigation at the national and subnational level, as well as site-based projects, have paid little attention to the adaptation needs of local communities, many of whom are already suffering from noticeable weather changes in their localities, and there is insufficient discussion of how REDD+ activities could facilitate increased resilience. While there were some implicit and coincidental adaptation benefits of some REDD+ activities, most studied projects and policies did not explicitly target their activities to focus on adaptation or resilience, and in at least one case, negative livelihood impacts that have increased household vulnerability to climate change were documented. Key barriers to integration were identified, such as sectoral specialization; a lack of attention in REDD+ projects to livelihoods; and inadequate support for ecosystem-based adaptation.

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Tradeoffs in carbon commodification: A political ecology of common property forest governance

Cited by 100 publications

References 105 publications

Unintentional path dependence: Australian guitar manufacturing, bunya pine and legacies of forestry decisions and resource stewardship

Unintentional path dependence: Australian guitar manufacturing, bunya pine and legacies of forestry decisions and resource stewardship

As múltiplas faces da comodificação e a constituição da crítica acerca das práticas de consumo contemporâneas

Using REDD+ Policy to Facilitate Climate Adaptation at the Local Level: Synergies and Challenges in Vietnam

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