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Abstract: "Interventions to conserve carbon stored in forests
are central to the emerging global climate change regime.
Widely referred to as REDD+, these interventions engage
local resource holders in contracts to restrict their use of land
and forests in exchange for conditional benefits, effectively
creating a market for forest carbon—a new and intangible
commodity. Delving into the social and material implications
of this, three case studies (Papua New Guinea,
Philippines, Cambodia) examine property relations in the
early stages of forest carbon production in different tenure
contexts. The case studies reveal that: (a) the risk of local
exclusion from forest and lands under REDD+ is real, but is
mediated by dynamic negotiations over knowledge and
property; (b) the relationship between forest carbon and
underlying property relations around land and forests is
recursive and mutually constitutive; and (c) due to ongoing
and entrenched property contests in REDD+ locations, there
remains an unstable foundation for forest carbon markets"...
Keywords: Property . Forest carbon . REDD+ . Commodity
Source/publisher:
"Human Ecology" (2012)
Date of Publication:
2013-01-00
Date of entry:
2015-02-03
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English
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