Forest rights: the hard currency of REDD+
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- Forest Rights: The Hard Currency of REDD+
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One of the proposed strategies for implementation of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation plus (REDD+) is to incentivize conservation of forests managed by communities under decentralized forest management. Yet, we argue that this is a challenging road to REDD+ because of three general characteristics of forests under existing decentralized management regimes. First, these forests already accumulate biomass and, in some cases, generate leakage, which threatens to undercut REDD+ additionality. Second, these forests are many and small, which will drive up REDD+ transactions costs. Third, beyond the “conservation islands” represented by forests under decentralized management, processes of deforestation and forest degradation continue. Given these challenges, we argue that REDD+ efforts through decentralized forestry should be redirected from incentivizing further conservation of forests under existing decentralized management arrangements toward a push for extending the coverage of forests under decentralized management, making forest rights the hard currency of REDD+.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Conservation Letters |
Vol/bind | 7 |
Udgave nummer | 3 |
Sider (fra-til) | 278-284 |
Antal sider | 7 |
ISSN | 1755-263X |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2014 |
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