TY - GEN
T1 - REDD+ crossroads post Paris
T2 - Politics, lessons and interplays
AU - Corbera, Esteve
AU - Schroeder, Heike
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: Esteve Corbera acknowledges the financial support of the UAB-Banco de Santander Talent Retention programme and notes that this work contributes to ICTA-UAB “María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence” (MDM-2015-0552).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by the authors.
PY - 2017/12/20
Y1 - 2017/12/20
N2 - This article introduces the special issue "REDD+ crossroads post Paris: politics, lessons and interplays". The contributions to the special issue suggest, first, that REDD+ design in the studied countries has generally lacked social legitimacy and sidelined key actors who can considerably influence land-use sector dynamics. Second, they show that REDD+ early actions have tended to oversimplify local realities and have been misaligned 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 policy harmonization. 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 coordination 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.
AB - This article introduces the special issue "REDD+ crossroads post Paris: politics, lessons and interplays". The contributions to the special issue suggest, first, that REDD+ design in the studied countries has generally lacked social legitimacy and sidelined key actors who can considerably influence land-use sector dynamics. Second, they show that REDD+ early actions have tended to oversimplify local realities and have been misaligned 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 policy harmonization. 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 coordination 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.
KW - Climate change
KW - Conflict
KW - Environmental governance
KW - Politics
KW - REDD+
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85039786034&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/f8120508
DO - 10.3390/f8120508
M3 - Other contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85039786034
VL - 8
T3 - Forests
ER -