The Carbon Fix

Forest Carbon, Social Justice, and Environmental Governance
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-61132-333-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paladino, Stephanie

Fiske, Shirley J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FOREWORD
The Carbon Offsetting Dilemma Esteve Corbera

INTRODUCTION
Carbon Offset, Markets, and Social Equity: Trading in Forests to Save the Planet Shirley J. Fiske and Stephanie Paladino

SECTION I: FRAMING THE CARBON REGIME IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL TRENDS

1. A Genealogy of Exchangeable Nature James Igoe

2. Profits and Promises: Can Carbon Trading Save Forests and Aid Development? Kathleen McAfee

3. Forest Carbon Sinks Prior to REDD: A Brief History of their Role in the Clean Development Mechanism María Gutiérrez

4. Justice and Equity in Carbon Offset Governance: Debates and Dilemmas Mary Finley-Brook

SECTION II: ACCOUNTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY

5. The Limitations of International Auditing: The Case of the Norway-Guyana REDD+ Agreement Janette Bulkan

6. Corporate Carbon Footprinting as Techno-political Practice Ingmar Lippert

7. Regulating Fairness in the Design of California’s Cap-and-Trade Market Patrick Bigger

SECTION III: NATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL FRAMINGS

8. Carbon, Carbon Everywhere: How Climate Change is Transforming Conservation in Costa Rica Robert Fletcher

9. Customary Landowners, Logging Companies, and Conservationists in a Decentralized State: The Case of REDD+ and PES in Papua New Guinea David Lipset and Bridget Henning

10. Interrogating Public Debates over Jurisdictional REDD+ in California’s Global Warming Solutions Act: Implications for Social Equity Libby Blanchard and Bhaskar Vira

11. Doing REDD+ Work in Vietnam: Will the New Carbon Focus Bring Equity to Forest Management? Pamela McElwee

SECTION IV: REDD, RIGHTS, AND EQUITY

12. Renegotiating REDD: Beyond Social Safeguards to Social Contracts Michael Brown

13. A Win-Win Scenario? The Prospects for Indigenous Peoples in Carbon Sequestration: REDD Projects in Brazil Janet Chernela and Laura Zanotti

14. Equity Concerns During REDD+ Planning and Early Implementation: A Case from Malawi Heather Yocum

15. Lessons from Community Forestry for REDD+ Social Soundness Janis B. Alcorn

SECTION V: ALTERNATIVE CONFIGURATIONS OF COMMUNITY AND GOVERNANCE

16. Empowering Forest Dependent Communities: The Role of REDD+ and PES Projects Mark Poffenberger

17. Climate Mitigation Based in Adaptation: El Salvador's Restoration of Mangrove Ecosystems, 2011-2013 Fiona Wilmot

18. A Critical Reflection on Social Equity in Ugandan Carbon Forestry Adrian Nel

Über Autor(innen)

Stephanie Paladino is an environmental anthropologist with the Center for Applied Social Research, University of Oklahoma, USA. Her research focuses on how environmental governancestrengthens equity and sustainability, most recently in theareas of carbon forestry offset markets, oils spill response, ecologically protected areas, and the Rio Grande basin.

Shirley J. Fiske is Research Professor at the University of Maryland. USA. She is an environmental anthropologist with career experience in the executive and legislative branches of the US government in ocean, climate change, and natural resources management policy and governance. She was awarded the 2016 Solon T. Kimball Award for public and applied anthropology by the American Anthropological Association.