Offsetting benefits? Analyzing access to forest carbon

Corbera, Esteve and Brown, Katrina (2010) Offsetting benefits? Analyzing access to forest carbon. Environment and Planning A, 42 (7). pp. 1739-1761. ISSN 0308-518X

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Emissions trading has created new forms of exchangeable property which become commodities when traded in markets designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and mitigate climate change. This paper analyzes a set of social processes which influence who benefits from reductions in emissions generated by primary production from forest ecosystems. Informed by commodification literature, and property and access theory, we suggest that farmers and rural communities cannot derive full benefits from carbon sequestration because they lack key structural and relational mechanisms, such as capital, knowledge, expertise, technology, and, in some cases, even labour. We illustrate this argument by examining three ongoing carbon-forestry projects in China, Ecuador, and Mexico and we highlight its implications for future forestry mitigation projects and programmes.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User:	Abigail Dalgleish
Date Deposited:	21 Dec 2010 16:39
Last Modified:	22 Dec 2022 14:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/18558
DOI:	10.1068/a42437

Actions (login required)

View Item