Nested governance for effective REDD+: Institutional and political arguments

Kashwan, Prakash; Holahan, Robert

doi:10.18352/bmgn-lchr.450

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“…Top-down solutions encounter problems, such as resistance among local actors, which impedes progress (Moeliono et al 2014 ; Sanders et al 2017 ), although even highly centralized spaces can give people room to maneuver and try new things (Pham et al 2014 ). Other studies have demonstrated the importance of forest users’ and inter-community forestry associations’ participation in REDD+ activities along with the support of government agencies and higher-level institutional arrangements (Kashwan and Holahan 2014 ).…”

Section: Multilevel Governance and Redd+mentioning

confidence: 99%

Top-down, Bottom-up and Sideways: The Multilayered Complexities of Multi-level Actors Shaping Forest Governance and REDD+ Arrangements in Madre de Dios, Peru

Rodríguez-Ward

Larson

Ruesta³

2018

Environmental Management

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This study examines the role multilevel governance plays in the adoption of sustainable landscape management initiatives in emerging arrangements aimed at reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). It sheds light on the challenges these multiple layers of actors and interests encounter around such alternatives in a subnational jurisdiction. Through transcript analysis of 93 interviews with institutional actors in the region of Madre de Dios, Peru, particularly with regard to five sites of land-use change, we identified the multiple actors who are included and excluded in the decision-making process and uncovered their complex interactions in forest and landscape governance and REDD+ arrangements. Madre de Dios is a useful case for studying complex land-use dynamics, as it is home to multiple natural resources, a large mix of actors and interests, and a regional government that has recently experienced the reverberations of decentralization. Findings indicate that multiple actors shaped REDD+ to some extent, but REDD+ and its advocates were unable to shape land-use dynamics or landscape governance, at least in the short term. In the absence of strong and effective regional regulation for sustainable land use alternatives and the high value of gold on the international market, illegal gold mining proved to be a more profitable land-use choice. Although REDD+ created a new space for multilevel actor interaction and communication and new alliances to emerge, the study questions the prevailing REDD+ discourse suggesting that better coordination and cooperation will lead to integrated landscape solutions. For REDD+ to be able to play a role in integrated landscape governance, greater attention needs to be paid to grassroots actors, power and authority over territory and underlying interests and incentives for land-use change.

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Section: Multilevel Governance and Redd+mentioning

confidence: 99%

Top-down, Bottom-up and Sideways: The Multilayered Complexities of Multi-level Actors Shaping Forest Governance and REDD+ Arrangements in Madre de Dios, Peru

Rodríguez-Ward

Larson

Ruesta³

2018

Environmental Management

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“…The final design principle is nested governance (P8). In Ostrom's framework, this principle requires preserving community autonomy from higher levels of government within a nested system (Kashwan and Holahan, 2014). For policing, this reflected explicitly in community autonomy over-policing.…”

Section: Ostrom-compliant Policingmentioning

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Community policing on American Indian reservations: a preliminary investigation

Crepelle

Fegley

Murtazashvili

et al. 2022

Journal of Institutional Economics

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In the 1970s, Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues found that neighborhood policing works better than metropolitan policing. Though Ostrom articulated design principles for self-governance, the early studies of neighborhood policing did not. In this paper, we articulate the design principles for self-governing policing, which we term Ostrom-Compliant Policing. We then apply this framework to an understudied case: policing on American Indian reservations. Policing in Indian country generally falls into one of three categories – federal policing (by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Federal Bureau of Investigation), state policing (by municipal and state police departments), and tribal policing (by tribal police departments) – that vary in the degree of centralization. Our main contribution is to show that tribal policing as it is practiced in the United States, which claims to be self-governing, is not Ostrom-Compliant. Thus, our approach offers insight into why high crime remains an ongoing challenge in much of Indian country even when tribes have primary control over policing outcomes. This does not mean centralization is better, or that self-governance of policing does not work. Rather, our research suggests that a greater tribal autonomy over-policing and meta-political changes to federal rules governing criminal jurisdictions is necessary to implement Ostromian policing.

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“…The tropical forests in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia are characterized by their complexitythe diversity of their species, short days, constant photoperiodicity, homogenous temperature, and the absence of thermal and hydrological stations (Whitmore 1983;Poorter and Bongers 1993;Lamprecht 1990). Approximately 800 million people live in these zones (Groom and Palmer 2012;Kashwan and Holahan 2014) of which 38% are undernourished (FAO, FIDA and PMA 2015). Fortunately, due to ancestral and traditional knowledge of the rural areas, which includes knowledge of the indigenous biodiversity of organisms that can be used as food, the percentage of undernourished is not likely to rise (Bennett 2002;Cole et al 2014).…”

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Importance of wild foods to household food security in tropical forest areas

Asprilla-Perea

Díaz-Puente

2018

Food Sec.

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This article conducts a systematic literature review to analyze and consolidate empirical and/or theoretical evidence that shows the importance of wild foods for household food security in tropical forest areas. For these territories, forest plants, fungi and animals are not only important as a source of food, but also for generating community income. The main challenges related to wild foods are the negative effects on protection of species and the risks to human health when this food is consumed without testing for safety and nutrition. Once these challenges are met, wild foods can serve to bolster food security which can help to sustain territories in tropical forests.

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Nested governance for effective REDD+: Institutional and political arguments

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Top-down, Bottom-up and Sideways: The Multilayered Complexities of Multi-level Actors Shaping Forest Governance and REDD+ Arrangements in Madre de Dios, Peru

Top-down, Bottom-up and Sideways: The Multilayered Complexities of Multi-level Actors Shaping Forest Governance and REDD+ Arrangements in Madre de Dios, Peru

Community policing on American Indian reservations: a preliminary investigation

Importance of wild foods to household food security in tropical forest areas

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