Keywords:
Climate change mitigation - International cooperation.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
A search for new methods for dealing with climate change led to the identification of forest maintenance as a potential policy option that could cost-effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with the development of measures for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). This book explores how an analysis of past forest governance patterns from the global through to the local level, can help us to build institutions which more effectively deal with forests within the climate change regime. The book assesses the options for reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries under the international climate regime, as well as the incentives flowing from them at the national and sub national level and examines how these policy levers change human behaviour and interface with the drivers and pressures of land use change in tropical forests. The book considers the trade-offs between certain forestry related policies within the current climate regime and the larger goal of sustainable forestry. Based on an assessment of existing multi-level institutional forestry arrangements, the book questions how policy frameworks can be better designed in order to effectively and equitably govern the challenges of deforestation and land degradation under the global climate change regime. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Law and Environmental Studies.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781135130268
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in International Environmental Law Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1125204
DDC:
577.27
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Climate Change, Forests and REDD: Lessons for Institutional Design -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Boxes -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Climate change and forests: From the Noordwijk Declaration to REDD -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Climate change -- 1.2.1 The physical problem -- 1.2.2 The governance process -- 1.2.3 The key political challenges -- 1.3 Forests -- 1.3.1 Current status -- 1.3.2 Deforestation and degradation -- 1.3.3 The governance process -- 1.3.4 The key political challenges -- 1.4 Climate change and forests -- 1.5 The research questions and the analytical framework -- 1.6 Inferences -- 2 The forest transition, the drivers of deforestation and governance approaches -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The forest transition -- 2.3 The drivers of deforestation -- 2.3.1 Generic drivers and forest transitions -- 2.3.2 Drivers of deforestation in different regions -- 2.4 Instruments of forest governance -- 2.4.1 Introduction -- 2.4.2 Forest transitions, drivers and forest policy -- 2.4.3 Classifying governance instruments -- 2.4.4 Regulatory instruments -- 2.4.5 Economic and market instruments -- 2.4.6 Suasive, information and research instruments -- 2.4.7 Management measures -- 2.4.8 Forest instruments and drivers -- 2.5 Inferences -- 3 Global forest governance -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Institutions -- 3.2.1 A brief history -- 3.2.2 Global institutions with a forest-focused mandate -- 3.2.3 Global institutions with a forest-related mandate and/or an indirect impact on forest services -- 3.2.4 Global governance institutions and ecosystem services -- 3.2.5 Regional institutions with a forest-focused mandate -- 3.2.6 Regional institutions with a forest-related mandate and/or an indirect impact on forest services -- 3.2.7 Extra-territorial impacts of national governance.
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3.3 Key principles and concepts in international forest governance -- 3.3.1 Key principles -- 3.3.2 Key concepts -- 3.4 Instruments of international forest governance -- 3.4.1 Regulatory instruments -- 3.4.2 Economic instruments -- 3.4.3 Suasive instruments -- 3.5 Inferences -- 4 The emergence of REDD on the global policy agenda -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Forests under the UN Climate Convention and the Kyoto Protocol -- 4.2.1 Early days: the forest-climate pre-Kyoto debate -- 4.2.2 Forests in the Kyoto Protocol - 'integrating forest commitments into the climate regime' -- 4.3 The emergence of REDD -- 4.3.1 REDD in the UNFCCC negotiations -- 4.3.2 REDD developments outside the UNFCCC -- 4.4 Key challenges for REDD at the international level: designing an effective, robust mechanism -- 4.4.1 The right scale for REDD -- 4.4.2 Reference levels -- 4.4.3 Financing REDD -- 4.4.4 Monitoring, reporting and verification -- 4.4.5 Permanence, additionality and leakage -- 4.4.6 Safeguards -- 4.5 Key challenges for REDD at the domestic level: implementation and benefit-sharing -- 4.5.1 The impact of REDD to date -- 4.5.2 Challenges of good governance, tenure and internal benefit-sharing -- 4.5.3 Risks and implications of commodifying forest carbon -- 4.6 Inferences -- 5 Case study: Vietnam -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Driving forces of deforestation and forest degradation -- 5.3 The forest policy context -- 5.3.1 The organizational framework -- 5.3.2 The evolution of forest policy -- 5.3.3 The influence of international treaties and bodies -- 5.4 Key forest policy instruments and their analysis -- 5.5 Implications for REDD -- 5.6 Inferences -- 6 Case study: Indonesia -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Driving forces of deforestation and forest degradation -- 6.3 The forest policy context -- 6.3.1 The organizational framework -- 6.3.2 The evolution of forest policy.
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6.3.3 The influence of international treaties and bodies -- 6.4 Key forest policy instruments and their analysis -- 6.5 Implications for REDD -- 6.6 Inferences -- 7 Case study: Cameroon -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Driving forces of deforestation and forest degradation -- 7.3 Key policies and instruments -- 7.3.1 The organizational framework -- 7.3.2 The evolution of forest policy -- 7.3.3 The influence of international treaties and bodies -- 7.4 Key forest policy instruments and their analysis -- 7.5 Implications for REDD -- 7.6 Inferences -- 8 Case study: Peru -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Driving forces of deforestation and forest degradation -- 8.3 The forest policy context -- 8.3.1 The organizational framework -- 8.3.2 The evolution of forest policy -- 8.3.3 The influence of international treaties and bodies -- 8.4 Key forest policy instruments and their analysis -- 8.5 Implications for REDD -- 8.6 Inferences -- 9 Comparative analysis of Vietnam, Indonesia, Cameroon and Peru -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Driving forces of deforestation and forest degradation -- 9.2.1 Direct drivers of deforestation and forest degradation -- 9.2.2 Underlying drivers of deforestation and forest degradation -- 9.3 Forest policy instruments assessed -- 9.4 Equity issues: impact on access and allocation -- 9.5 Implications for REDD -- 9.6 Conclusion -- 10 REDD policies, global food, fibre and timber markets, and 'leakage' -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Methods and data -- 10.3 A scenario of future deforestation -- 10.3.1 Introduction -- 10.3.2 Growth of population and income -- 10.3.3 Demand for food and timber -- 10.3.4 Demand for biofuels -- 10.3.5 Future demand and supply of land -- 10.3.6 Baseline scenario of land-use change and deforestation -- 10.4 Economic effects of REDD-induced forest conservation -- 10.4.1 Introduction -- 10.4.2 A forest conservation policy scenario.
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10.4.3 Global food and timber markets -- 10.4.4 Economy-wide effects and environmental benefits -- 10.4.5 Inferences -- 10.5 Leakage -- 10.5.1 Introduction -- 10.5.2 Leakage simulations -- 10.5.3 Inferences -- 10.6 Inferences -- 11 The future of forests -- 11.1 Global forest governance: a twenty-first-century myth of Sisyphus? -- 11.2 'Glocal' forest governance -- 11.2.1 Evolutionary phases in forest governance -- 11.2.2 The politics of scale: Should there be 'glocal' forest governance? -- 11.2.3 Current global forest governance -- 11.3 National forest governance -- 11.3.1 The forest transition -- 11.3.2 Forest transitions, drivers and policies -- 11.3.3 National forest policies -- 11.4 REDD revisited -- 11.4.1 Practical options for implementing REDD in countries -- 11.4.2 Buying time or a REDD herring -- 11.4.3 A North-South analysis -- 11.4.4 Going beyond REDD: the challenge of mainstreaming forests -- 11.5 Conclusions -- INDEX.
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