Redeeming Redd

Author : Michael I. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136340611

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Redeeming REDD by Michael I. Brown Pdf

It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon. As a result, public and private initiatives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) have been widely endorsed by policy-makers. A key issue is the feasibility of carbon trading or other incentives to encourage land-owners and indigenous people, particularly in developing tropical countries, to conserve forests, rather than to cut them down for agricultural or other development purposes. This book presents a major critique of the aims and policies of REDD as currently structured, particularly in terms of their social feasibility. It is shown how the claims to be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as enhance people's livelihoods and biodiversity conservation are unrealistic. There is a naive assumption that technical or economic fixes are sufficient for success. However, the social and governance aspects of REDD, and its enhanced version known as REDD+, are shown to be implausible. Instead to enhance REDD's prospects, the author provides a roadmap for developing a new social contract that puts people first.

Author : Michael I. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0203123654

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Redeeming REDD by Michael I. Brown Pdf

It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon. As a result, public and private initiatives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) have been widely endorsed by policy-makers. A key issue is the feasibility of carbon trading or other incentives to encourage land-owners and indigenous people, particularly in developing tropical countries, to conserve forests, rather than to cut them down for agricultural or other development purposes. This book presents a major critique of the aims and policies of REDD as currently structured, particularly in terms of their social feasibility. It is shown how the claims to be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as enhance people's livelihoods and biodiversity conservation are unrealistic. There is a naive assumption that technical or economic fixes are sufficient for success. However, the social and governance aspects of REDD, and its enhanced version known as REDD+, are shown to be implausible. Instead to enhance REDD's prospects, the author provides a roadmap for developing a new social contract that puts people first.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1490 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : NYPL:33433016643763

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Internal Revenue Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UOM:39015062116408

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by United States. Internal Revenue Service Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Income tax
ISBN : OSU:32435059812016

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Publication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephanie Paladino,Shirley J Fiske
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315473994

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The Carbon Fix by Stephanie Paladino,Shirley J Fiske Pdf

Given the growing urgency to develop global responses to a changing climate, The Carbon Fix examines the social and equity dimensions of putting the world’s forests—and, necessarily, the rural people who manage and depend on them—at the center of climate policy efforts such as REDD+, intended to slow global warming. The book assesses the implications of international policy approaches that focus on forests as carbon and especially, forest carbon offsets, for rights, justice, and climate governance. Contributions from leading anthropologists and geographers analyze a growing trend towards market principles and financialization of nature in environmental governance, placing it into conceptual, critical, and historical context. The book then challenges perceptions of forest carbon initiatives through in-depth, field-based case studies assessing projects, policies, and procedures at various scales, from informed consent to international carbon auditing. While providing a mixed assessment of the potential for forest carbon initiatives to balance carbon with social goals, the authors present compelling evidence for the complexities of the carbon offset enterprise, fraught with competing interests and interpretations at multiple scales, and having unanticipated and often deleterious effects on the resources and rights of the world’s poorest peoples—especially indigenous and rural peoples. The Carbon Fix provides nuanced insights into political, economic, and ethical issues associated with climate change policy. Its case approach and fresh perspective are critical to environmental professionals, development planners, and project managers; and to students in upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental anthropology and geography, environmental and policy studies, international development, and indigenous studies.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1308 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498355

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Allen Blackman,Rebecca Epanchin-Niell,Juha Siikamäki,Daniel Velez-Lopez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317906858

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Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean by Allen Blackman,Rebecca Epanchin-Niell,Juha Siikamäki,Daniel Velez-Lopez Pdf

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse. It contains about half of the world’s remaining tropical forests, nearly one-fifth of its coastal habitats, and some of its most productive agricultural and marine areas. But agriculture, fishing and other human activities linked to rapid population and economic growth increasingly threaten that biodiversity. Moreover, poverty, weak regulatory capacity, and limited political will hamper conservation. Given this dilemma, it is critically important to design conservation strategies on the basis of the best available information about both biodiversity and the track records of the various policies that have been used to protect it. This rigorously researched book has three key aims. It describes the status of biodiversity in LAC, the main threats to this biodiversity, and the drivers of these threats. It identifies the main policies being used to conserve biodiversity and assesses their effectiveness and potential for further implementation. It proposes five specific lines of practical action for conserving LAC biodiversity, based on: green agriculture; strengthening terrestrial protected areas and co-management; improving environmental governance; strengthening coastal and marine resource management; and improving biodiversity data and policy evaluation.

Author : Julia Dehm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108423762

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Reconsidering REDD+ by Julia Dehm Pdf

REDD+ operates to reorganise social relations and to establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South.

Author : REV. THOMAS DAVIDSON
Publisher : VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS, Aaradhana, Deverkovil 673508 India
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by REV. THOMAS DAVIDSON Pdf

EDITED BY REV. THOMAS DAVIDSON ASSISTANT-EDITOR OF 'CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA' EDITOR OF 'CHAMBERS'S ENGLISH DICTIONARY Since there are many other updated English dictionaries online and otherwise in the digital form, downloading this dictionary of the yesteryears might not be of any use as a means to find the meaning of English words. However to those who would like to know the whereabouts of the pristine-English that was there in pristine-England, this dictionary would be an ideal possession. It was an age when many English letters came in various combined form - the so-called Alphabetic ligatures. Another mentionable item would be insights that can be had on what were original meanings of various English words. There are so-many words whose meaning has altered much over the past few years and decades.

Author : Esteve Corbera ,Heike Schroeder
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9783038427070

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REDD+ Crossroads Post Paris: Politics, Lessons and Interplays by Esteve Corbera ,Heike Schroeder Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "REDD+ Crossroads Post Paris: Politics, Lessons and Interplays" that was published in Forests

Author : Jessica Barnes,Michael R. Dove
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300198812

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Climate Cultures by Jessica Barnes,Michael R. Dove Pdf

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet global solutions have proved elusive. This book draws together cutting-edge anthropological research to uncover new ways of approaching the critical questions that surround climate change. Leading anthropologists engage in three major areas of inquiry: how climate change issues have been framed in previous times compared to present-day discourse, how knowledge about climate change and its impacts is produced and interpreted by different groups, and how imagination plays a role in shaping conceptions of climate change.

Author : Bas Arts,Verina Ingram,Maria Brockhaus
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039288991

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The Performance of REDD+ by Bas Arts,Verina Ingram,Maria Brockhaus Pdf

REDD+ represents countries’ efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and foster conservation, the sustainable management of forests, and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks. The basic idea is that more carbon can be sequestrated and stocked in tropical forests by improving their conservation, management, and sustainable use, thus contributing to mitigating climate change. The developing countries and relevant stakeholders concerned will be financially compensated for these endeavors, either through public funds or private carbon markets. Given this context, this book will address the need to assess the political and socio–economic dimensions of the performance of REDD+, which is relevant to policy-makers, practitioners, and scholars. This implies taking into account the various levels (from global to local) and dimensions (e.g., results-based payments, MRV, co-benefits, and community engagement), as well as divergent (disciplinary) connotations, of performance. We, therefore, pose the following question: What does performance mean? In answering this question, we provide examples of assessments of performance. We present 9 cases of how REDD has performed on local, national and international scales, and reflect on the representativeness of these examples and their limitations when looking at the current range of REDD initiatives, along with what is missing in terms of evaluating the performance of REDD+. We conclude by establishing why performance assessment remains so relevant today.

Author : Melissa Leach,Ian Scoones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317579984

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Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa by Melissa Leach,Ian Scoones Pdf

Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere. Exploring a set of new empirical case studies, Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa examines how these projects are unfolding, their effects, and who is gaining and losing. Situating forest carbon approaches as part of more general moves to address environmental problems by attaching market values to nature and ecosystems, it examines how new projects interact with forest landscapes and their longer histories of intervention. The book asks: what difference does carbon make? What political and ecological dynamics are unleashed by these new commodified, marketized approaches, and how are local forest users experiencing and responding to them? The book’s case studies cover a wide range of African ecologies, project types and national political-economic contexts. By examining these cases in a comparative framework and within an understanding of the national, regional and global institutional arrangements shaping forest carbon commoditisation, the book provides a rich and compelling account of how and why carbon conflicts are emerging, and how they might be avoided in future. This book will be of interest to students of development studies, environmental sciences, geography, economics, development studies and anthropology, as well as practitioners and policy makers.

Author : David Lea
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Papua New Guinea
ISBN : 9781666917390

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Papua New Guinea in the Twenty-first Century by David Lea Pdf

This book describes the challenges this young nation state of Papua New Guinea faces in the twenty first century as it strives for economic development and an independent voice in regional and international affairs. These challenges also include the geopolitical context in which China is exerting a growing influence.