Welfare environmentality and REDD+ incentives in Indonesia

Boer, Henry

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2017.1292872

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“…Inattention to temporality of this sort has the potential to obscure prior methods of forest governance, a tendency I attribute to the taking of REDD+ as the analytical starting point. In the clearest realization of this potential to obscure that I have found, Boer (2017) explains in his argument for the existence of a new REDD+ ‘welfare’ environmentality in Indonesia, that ‘By providing certain rights to employment, health and education the state exchanges livelihood options and security in return for recipients adopting responsibility for environmental care’ (2). Although Indonesia is recognized to be a developing country, Boer attributes the provision of developmental benefits to local communities through REDD+ as ‘welfare environmentality’, conceptualized as a new expression of environmentality.…”

Section: Conceptualizing Redd+ Through Environmentalitymentioning

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“…REDD+ countries are almost all developing nations, often having had decades of international policy interventions aimed at governing them and their environments in particular ways. Hence, these development histories set the tone for REDD+ to continue in the vein of promising development (Lund et al., 2017), or in Boer's (2017) case, welfare outcomes.…”

Section: Conceptualizing Redd+ Through Environmentalitymentioning

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“…Increasingly, researchers have adopted the environmental governmentality lens, also labelled ‘environmentality’, to analyse the implementation of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) mechanism (e.g. Asiyanbi et al., 2019; Astuti and McGregor, 2015; Boer, 2017, 2018; McGregor et al., 2015). REDD+ itself is a tool of global environmental governance (Corbera and Schroeder, 2011; Thompson et al., 2011) that offers financial incentives to reduce deforestation and forest degradation in the interest of mitigating climate change by keeping carbon sequestered in forests.…”

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How REDD+ governs: Multiple forest environmentalities in Guyana and Suriname

Collins

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation mechanism is a policy instrument intended to achieve environmental conservation and utilization simultaneously. Recently, researchers have adopted ‘environmentality’, a theoretical approach that recognizes the different strategies for the ‘conduct of conduct’ embodied in environmental governance, to parse the diverse governing logics supporting Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation implementation. Thus far, use of this lens has focused predominantly on how Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation introduces new forms of environmentality, overlooking the pre-existing, context-specific approaches to governance on which the mechanism builds, and hence potentially overstating the novelty of its governance techniques. Challenging this dominant use of the environmentality lens, I further develop its critical potential by demonstrating how environmentality's temporal dimensions illuminate the shifts, continuities and disruptions in how environmental governance evolves over time. I do this by demonstrating how Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation builds on pre-existing forest governance interventions in Guyana and neighbouring Suriname. I argue that while Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation remains a global expression of neoliberal environmentality, it builds on a pre-existing sovereign environmentality established throughout the overlapping histories of Guyana and Suriname, draws on but also subverts context-specific truth environmentality in the spiritual relations of forest dependent communities with the forests, and is made palatable for resistant communities through disciplinary environmentality. In this way, these four forms of environmentality help to explain how Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation implementation in the two countries assumes its current character, while demonstrating how environmental projects work towards shaping the subjects of their governance.

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Section: Conceptualizing Redd+ Through Environmentalitymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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How REDD+ governs: Multiple forest environmentalities in Guyana and Suriname

Collins

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…This typology has been productively employed by subsequent researchers to identify diverse overlapping forms of environmentality in contexts and processes throughout the world (for an overview, see Fletcher, 2017). Others have diversified the field still further by advancing novel forms of environmentality beyond Foucault’s original categories, including Boer’s (2017) attribution of a ‘welfare’ environmentality to governance of the Reduced Emissions through avoided Deforestation and land Degradation (REDD+) mechanism in Indonesia; Lorimer’s (2017) identification of ‘probiotic’ environmentalities in increasingly popular ‘rewilding’ efforts; and Rutherford’s (2011) description of a range of entirely different governmentalities (scientific, corporate, aesthetic and ethical) across sites of environmental knowledge production and representation in North America. 1…”

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Beyond the green panopticon: New directions in research exploring environmental governmentality

Fletcher

Cortés-Vázquez

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This introduction to the special collection explores how a revised or expanded understanding of ‘environmentality’ can further our analysis of the evermore complex terrain of environmental politics today. We offer an outline of the literature from which the discussion emerges and how the subsequent articles both engage with and depart from it. We describe the origin of the ‘green governmentality’ discussion following the rise of global sustainable development discourse. We then explain how this initial exploration was subsequently complicated by introduction of two further lines of investigation: (1) attention to the micropolitics of community-based natural resource management; and (2) extrapolation from this to describe the different forms of green governmentality within which such local practices are situated as well as the multiple scales at which environmental governance is exercised. Following this, we outline a range of critiques to which this burgeoning research has also been subject and the fruitful lines of future research to which they point. We finish by describing how the various contributions to this collection engage with different aspects of this multifaceted discussion as the basis for further engagement by other researchers in the years ahead.

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“…Busch, et al [ 103 ] proposed an improved voluntary incentive structure for REDD+ projects by comparing the emission reductions under the mandatory incentive structure with the basic voluntary incentive structure. Boer [ 104 ] used the governmentality theory to explore the rationality of various incentives, arguing that REDD+ incentives are often combined with neoliberalism in climate agenda, that is, using the market instruments to achieve the commodification of forest carbon. However, who should get the incentive is still in debate.…”

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Uncertainty in Estimates, Incentives, and Emission Reductions in REDD+ Projects

Sheng

Zhou

Sherbinin

2018

IJERPH

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The accurate monitoring and measurement of emission reductions is a critical step in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+). However, the existence of uncertainty in emission reduction estimates affects the performance of REDD+ projects. We assert that incentive could be a valuable policy tool for reducing monitoring errors and transaction costs. Using Stackelberg models and simulation research, this paper examines the effects of uncertainty and incentive on performance and stakeholder benefits of REDD+ projects. Finally, the uncertainties in REDD+ projects are further discussed, and equilibrium errors, emission reductions, and stakeholder benefits in different scenarios are compared. The results show that errors do affect the measured value of carbon emissions and compensation payments. However, incentive for investors can reduce monitoring errors and improve the performance of REDD+ projects. Therefore, in the future, incentive should be provided to investors rather than landholders.

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Welfare environmentality and REDD+ incentives in Indonesia

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

How REDD+ governs: Multiple forest environmentalities in Guyana and Suriname

How REDD+ governs: Multiple forest environmentalities in Guyana and Suriname

Beyond the green panopticon: New directions in research exploring environmental governmentality

Uncertainty in Estimates, Incentives, and Emission Reductions in REDD+ Projects

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