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Margaret Skutsch and Esther Turnhout
Community based approaches are becoming the norm in environmental governance initiatives. One prominent example of this is Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+), a climate change mitigation strategy that aims at reducing car...
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Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Mathias Cramm and Jo Van Brusselen
Sustainable forest management (SFM) is a concept that guides forest management and policy globally. Over the past decades, two prominent regimes have emerged at the global level that can strengthen SFM: The European Union’s Action Plan on Forest La...
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Hugo Rosa da Conceição, Jan Börner and Sven Wunder
Command-and-control policies are often criticized as insufficient to tackle tropical deforestation. Over the past two decades, both academics and policy-makers have promoted incentive-based policies, notably REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation an...
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Jichuan Sheng, Weihai Zhou and Alex De Sherbinin
The accurate monitoring and measurement of emission reductions is a critical step in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+). However, the existence of uncertainty in emission reduction estimates affects the performance of REDD+ pro...
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Pamela McElwee, Van Hai Thi Nguyen, Dung Viet Nguyen, Nghi Huu Tran, Hue Van Thi Le, Tuyen Phuong Nghiem and Huong Dieu Thi Vu
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 p...
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Esteve Corbera and Heike Schroeder
This article introduces the special issue ?REDD+ crossroads post Paris: politics, lessons and interplays?. The contributions to the special issue demonstrate, first, that REDD+ design in the studied countries has generally lacked social legitimacy and si...
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Irmeli Mustalahti, Mathias Cramm, Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen and Yitagesu T. Tegegne
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) aims to achieve its purpose by working across multiple sectors and involving multilevel actors in reducing deforestation and forest degradation in tropical countries. By contrast, the E...
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Adeniyi P. Asiyanbi, Albert A. Arhin and Usman Isyaku
This paper analyses the design and implementation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, conserving and enhancing forest carbon stocks, and sustainably managing forests (REDD+) in the West African region, an important global biodiversi...
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Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem
Carbon policy is a fascinating topic in geography and political ecology, because carbon is a new exchangeable good, which links the local to the international arenas through a complex set of instruments, norms, and institutions. In this paper, after expl...
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Ignacia Holmes, Catherine Potvin and Oliver T. Coomes
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) offers developing countries an opportunity to engage in global climate change mitigation through the sale of carbon credits for reforestation, avoided deforestation and forest conservat...
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