Global Forest Governance and Climate Change
Interrogating Representation, Participation, and Decentralization
Editors: Nuesiri, Emmanuel (Ed.)
Free Preview- Demonstrates the importance of representation, participation and decentralization in the relationship between climate change and forestry governance
- Critically explores the different types of political representation in forest governance and their potential to strengthen participation
- Offers an invaluable resource to policy makers, NGOs and local communities involved in various types of forestry projects
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- About this book
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This edited collection assesses governance in forestry programmes and projects, including REDD+ governance. It examines political representation, participation and decentralisation in forest governance, providing insight as to how forest governance arrangements can be responsive to the socio-economic interests of local people and communities who live adjacent to and depend on forests.
Global Forest Governance and Climate Change argues that inclusive complementary representation of local communities is required for strong participatory processes and democratic decentralisation of forest governance. Responsiveness to local people’s socio-economic interests in forestry initiatives require paying attention to not just the hosting of participatory meetings and activities, but also to the full cast of appointed, self-authorized, and elected representative agents that stand, speak, and act for local people.
This book will be of interest to students and academics across the fields of climate change governance, forestry, development studies, and political economy. It will also be a useful resource for policy makers and practitioners responsible for forestry and climate change initiatives.
- About the authors
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Emmanuel O. Nuesiri is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and a Research Affiliate with the Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA. His research interests include democratic decentralisation, participation, and political representation in climate change and forestry initiatives such as REDD+.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Global Forest Governance and Climate Change: Introduction and Overview
Pages 1-16
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Godfather Politics and Exclusionary Local Representation in REDD+: A Case Study of the Design of the UN-REDD-Supervised Nigeria-REDD Proposal
Pages 17-49
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The Illusion of Participation: Tokenism in REDD+ Pilot Projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Pages 51-80
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Institutional Choice and Substantive Representation of Local People in Carbon Forestry in Uganda
Pages 81-113
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Displacement, Power and REDD+: A Forest History of Carbonized Exclusion
Pages 115-143
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Global Forest Governance and Climate Change
- Book Subtitle
- Interrogating Representation, Participation, and Decentralization
- Editors
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- Emmanuel Nuesiri
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-71946-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-71946-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-71945-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-10133-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 322
- Topics
