REDD+ Crossroads Post Paris: Politics, Lessons and Interplays

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Corbera, Esteve and Schroeder, Heike ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2342-2030 (2017) REDD+ Crossroads Post Paris: Politics, Lessons and Interplays. Forests, 8 (12). ISSN 1999-4907

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Abstract

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 sidelined key actors that have an important role in shaping land-use sector dynamics. Second, they show that REDD+ early actions have tended to oversimplify local realities and have been misaligned with other policy goals and local needs. Third, REDD+ efforts have remained constrained to the forestry or climate mitigation policy sectors and have thus suffered from a lack of harmonization across local, national and international concerns, specifically of contradictory policy. As REDD+ moves from its preparedness to its implementation phase, more research efforts should be aimed at analysing the power relations that underpin and determine the design and implementation of REDD+ policies and actions, the potential for and limits to the vertical and horizontal harmonization of land-use policies and management, and the processes of resistance to or accommodation of REDD+ practices on the ground. In doing so, we advocate for multi-and transdisciplinary research that does not take for granted the benefits of REDD+ and which critically scrutinizes the multiple goals of this ambitious international policy framework, and where it sits within the broader Paris Agreement implementation agenda.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: climate change,conflict,environmental governance,politics,redd+,sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development

University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 15 Jan 2018 10:30
Last Modified: 13 May 2023 00:24
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65925
DOI: 10.3390/f8120508

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