Forest Voices: Competing Narratives over REDD+

Hiraldo, Rocio; Tanner, Thomas

doi:10.1111/j.1759-5436.2011.00221.x

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“…In order to achieve a shift in discourse that will support transformational change, reformist policy actors as well as the media need to engage dominant policy actors more explicitly in debates about how to reduce pressure on forest from agricultural expansion, 50. Arts and Buizer 2009;Hiraldo andTanner 2011. 51.…”

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Deadlock or Transformational Change? Exploring Public Discourse on REDD+ Across Seven Countries

Gregorio¹,

Brockhaus²,

Cronin³

et al. 2015

Global Environmental Politics

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This paper investigates public discourses on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) across seven countries to assess whether they support policy reforms. The paper argues that transformational discourses have at least one of the following characteristics: they advocate specific policy reforms that address drivers of deforestation and forest degradation; they take into account potential risks of a REDD+ mechanism; they go beyond technocratic solutions to reduce emissions; they explicitly challenge existing power relations that support drivers of deforestation. The evidence indicates the predominance of win-win storylines, a lack of engagement by state actors with debates on potential negative socioeconomic outcomes of REDD+ and little attention to the drivers of deforestation. The paper concludes that in order to achieve a shift towards transformational discourse, reformist policy actors and the media need to engage dominant policy actors in debates about how to reduce pressure on forest.

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Deadlock or Transformational Change? Exploring Public Discourse on REDD+ Across Seven Countries

Gregorio¹,

Brockhaus²,

Cronin³

et al. 2015

Global Environmental Politics

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“…We draw on Hajer's (1995, p. 44) definition of discourse as "an ensemble of ideas, concepts, and categorizations that are produced, reproduced, and transformed in a particular set of practices and through which meaning is given to physical and social realities". REDD+ discourses matter because they shape policy debates around REDD+ design and justify specific policy design solutions Hiraldo and Tanner, 2011). Discourse analysis of both spoken and written text-interviews and policy documents-can help to identify which understandings of REDD+ have gained prominence.…”

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Framing national REDD+ benefits, monitoring, governance and finance: A comparative analysis of seven countries

Vijge

Brockhaus

Gregorio

et al. 2016

Global Environmental Change

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“…This tendency to emphasize strong, freely transferable, and relatively unqualified ownership rights over stored carbon risks promoting idealized (and unrealistic) visions of unfettered carbon markets that may favor wealthy, high emitting nations as well as national governments and elites in developing countries (e.g., [53,71]). This raises the second major concern: that REDD+ gives too much authority to the nation state, thereby failing to recognize the views and interests of local groups or individuals who may not be well-represented by their national governments [31,[72][73][74]. More attention to recognitional justice ideas should suggest alternative arrangements giving more autonomy to local communities in REDD+ programs to create enabling environments by helping them to work directly with civil society groups or international actors.…”

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Transforming Justice in REDD+ through a Politics of Difference Approach

Suiseeya

2016

Forests

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Since Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation "Plus" (REDD+) starting gaining traction in the UN climate negotiations in 2007, its architects and scholars have grappled with its community-level justice implications. On the one hand, supporters argue that REDD+ will help the environment and forest-dependent communities by generating payments for forest carbon services from industrialized countries seeking lower cost emissions reductions. Critics, by contrast, increasingly argue that REDD+ is a new form of colonization through capitalism, producing injustice by stripping forest communities of their rights, denying them capabilities for wellbeing, and rendering forest peoples voiceless in forest governance. This paper argues that current REDD+ debates are too focused on relatively simple visions of either distributive or procedural justice, and pay too little attention to the core recognitional justice concerns of REDD+ critics, namely questions of what values, worldviews, rights, and identities are privileged or displaced in the emergence, design, and implementation of REDD+ and with what effects. This paper examines the tensions that emerge when designing institutions to promote multi-scalar, multivalent justice in REDD+ to ask: what are the justice demands that REDD+ architects face when designing REDD+ institutions? Complexifying the concepts of justice as deployed in the debates on REDD+ can illuminate the possibilities for a diversity of alternative perspectives to generate new institutional design ideas for REDD+.

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Forest Voices: Competing Narratives over REDD+

Cited by 42 publications

References 11 publications

Deadlock or Transformational Change? Exploring Public Discourse on REDD+ Across Seven Countries

Deadlock or Transformational Change? Exploring Public Discourse on REDD+ Across Seven Countries

Framing national REDD+ benefits, monitoring, governance and finance: A comparative analysis of seven countries

Transforming Justice in REDD+ through a Politics of Difference Approach

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