Whose environmental justice? Exploring local and global perspectives in a payments for ecosystem services scheme in Rwanda

Martin, Adrian; Gross-Camp, Nicole; Kebede, Bereket; McGuire, Shawn; Munyarukaza, Joseph

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.02.006

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“…Although these schemes may hold significant promise for conservation, there are still great uncertainties with regards to which groups will benefit, with some critics arguing that these initiatives may potentially diminish the power of local communities for controlling the management of their own natural resources. For example, procedures of stakeholder consultation which aim to achieve transparency and equal partnerships, and which address issues that affect the rights and capacity of local communities, are still problematic (Okereke and Dooley, 2010;Martin et al, 2013). Many indigenous groups in the Guiana Shield do not have rights to their traditional land and the resources which are found within these (Colchester et al, 2001;Rainforest Alliance, 2012).…”

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Our common future? Cross-scalar scenario analysis for social–ecological sustainability of the Guiana Shield, South America

Mistry

Tschirhart

Verwer³

et al. 2014

Environmental Science & Policy

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AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank all the participants of the North Rupununi and Guyana scenario workshops and Dominique Laffly for his advice in carrying out statistical analysis. Thank you to the anonymous reviewers for their comments. This research has been funded by the Environment Programme, Management of Natural Resources, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission 7 th Framework. 2 AbstractScenarios help build a shared understanding of potential futures and allow us to engage with how interventions or activities may impact on people and the environment. There are many scenario sets that have been developed at the global and regional level, but to a lesser extent at the national and local levels. Yet fewer studies have explicitly linked imagined futures at different socialecological scales. In this paper, we discuss how scenario analysis was used with indigenous communities and national level stakeholders in Guyana, South America, to explore context specific futures in relation to linked socialecological systems. These futures were then analysed against published regional (Amazonian) and international scenarios using a qualitative coding approach and supported by quantitative factorial analysis. This allowed us to develop a matrix of multi-scalar scenarios, showing how scenarios at all scales interact. From this, we were able to identify virtuous and vicious cycles amongst the different scales where developments produced feedbacks to make situations worse, better or counteract change at other levels. Our results show that there is considerable mismatch between the different scales of analysis, with the national scale playing a key role as mediator. In addition, we highlight the importance of focusing on the root causes shaping futures as well as participatory forms of scenario development in order to provide better policy and decision support, and stimulate engagement at all levels of organisation in the process of change.

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Our common future? Cross-scalar scenario analysis for social–ecological sustainability of the Guiana Shield, South America

Mistry

Tschirhart

Verwer³

et al. 2014

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…Por ejemplo, el uso inter-generacional de los recursos considera el tiempo histórico agrario de las comunidades originarias. Esta transformación axiomática de comprensión de los recursos naturales y su administración, a gran escala, requiere la democratización de la justicia ambiental que implique el reconocimiento del patrimonio ecológico y cultural intangible y desarrolle procesos de participación y regulación para salvaguardarlo (Martin et al, 2014). Los gobiernos de América Latina deberían explorar una gestión de sus bosques, sus páramos, su biodiversidad a partir del reconocimiento sobre el valor estratégico ecológico y cultural de estos bienes, promoviendo mecanismos internacionales y lobbies para su reconocimiento legal y legítimo.…”

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“…Otra parte de la literatura, dando particular atención a la justicia ambiental y al estudio de los conflictos ambientales, reflexiona la gobernanza como un lugar de debate político donde se perciben tensiones irreconciliables acerca de las maneras de concebir y administrar los recursos naturales (Castro, 2017;Martin et al, 2014;Dietz, 2014;Dietz y Engels, 2017). Hasta ahora existen pocos estudios que analicen la innovación institucional de la gobernanza desde una perspectiva bottom-up, que posibilite la articulación institucional de políticas intersectoriales a partir de ideas innovadoras surgidas de la interacción entre los nichos tecnológicos y las prácticas territoriales de los actores locales.…”

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Explorando la innovación local como proceso clave en la transformación de las instituciones del nuevo milenio

González

2018

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Resumen. La incompatibilidad entre las políticas energéticas y aquellas ambientales está marcando la historia de la administración pública de los recursos naturales durante el nuevo milenio, particularmente en la región latinoamericana. Este artículo, contrastando los objetivos de las políticas energéticas respecto a aquellos de las políticas ambientales, plantea que la innovación en gobernanza debería considerar articulaciones, en un contexto multinivel policéntrico de impacto local-global. A nivel metodológico conceptual este escrito presenta el enfoque de "gobernanza multinivel", el modelo de "Administración estratégica de nichos tecnológicos" y el concepto "innovación en gobernanza" como para la implementación de dichas sinergias. Este artículo concluye explorando la integración entre sectores gubernamentales, nichos tecnológicos y conocimiento ecológico local, como coalición clave para avanzar en la articulación intersectorial de las políticas públicas mencionadas. Palabras clave: Innovación institucional, políticas energéticas, gobernanza ambiental, desarrollo local. Exploring local innovation as a key process in the transformation of the institutions of the new millenniumAbstract. The incompatibility between energy policies and environmental policies characterizes the contemporary history of public resources management, this particularly in Latin America. This article compares the challenges of national energy politics with those from environmental politics, in order to put forth innovative governance pathways, which consider articulations of these policies in a polycentric context focus on a local global impact. From a methodological perspective this text presents the "Multi-level Perspective Approach -MLP", besides the model of "Strategic Niche Management -SNM" and the concept of "innovative governance", considering them as inputs for the implementation of these synergies. This article concludes exploring the articulation between governmental sectors, technological niches and the traditional ecological knowledge-TEK as a key coalition to promote the inter sectoral articulation of the mentioned policies.

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“…Another may be to recognize that local social and resource management/tenure complexities may render PES schemes inappropriate in certain cases. ''Local participation'' in PES schemes is increasingly highlighted as means to redress early problems, but is not a panacea and merits further examination, as do concepts of environmental justice in PES (Martin et al 2013;Suiseeya and Caplow 2013).…”

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Turning the Tide: How Blue Carbon and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Might Help Save Mangrove Forests

Locatelli

Binet

Kairo

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In this review paper, we aim to describe the potential for, and the key challenges to, applying PES projects to mangroves. By adopting a ''carbocentric approach,'' we show that mangrove forests are strong candidates for PES projects. They are particularly well suited to the generation of carbon credits because of their unrivaled potential as carbon sinks, their resistance and resilience to natural hazards, and their extensive provision of Ecosystem Services other than carbon sequestration, primarily nursery areas for fish, water purification and coastal protection, to the benefit of local communities as well as to the global population. The voluntary carbon market provides opportunities for the development of appropriate protocols and good practice case studies for mangroves at a small scale, and these may influence larger compliance schemes in the future. Mangrove habitats are mostly located in developing countries on communally or state-owned land. This means that issues of national and local governance, land ownership and management, and environmental justice are the main challenges that require careful planning at the early stages of mangrove PES projects to ensure successful outcomes and equitable benefit sharing within local communities.

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Whose environmental justice? Exploring local and global perspectives in a payments for ecosystem services scheme in Rwanda

Cited by 138 publications

References 36 publications

Our common future? Cross-scalar scenario analysis for social–ecological sustainability of the Guiana Shield, South America

Our common future? Cross-scalar scenario analysis for social–ecological sustainability of the Guiana Shield, South America

Explorando la innovación local como proceso clave en la transformación de las instituciones del nuevo milenio

Turning the Tide: How Blue Carbon and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Might Help Save Mangrove Forests

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