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An Assessment of the Transformational Potential of REDD+ in Tackling Drivers of Deforestation.

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Title/Author:	An Assessment of the Transformational Potential of REDD+ in Tackling Drivers of Deforestation./
Author:	Weatherley-Singh, Janice.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	155 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-11B.
Subject:	Agriculture. -
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ISBN:	9798597031798

An Assessment of the Transformational Potential of REDD+ in Tackling Drivers of Deforestation.
Weatherley-Singh, Janice.

An Assessment of the Transformational Potential of REDD+ in Tackling Drivers of Deforestation. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 155 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wageningen University and Research, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Tropical deforestation and forest degradation is a pressing and urgent global challenge, with extremely high environmental and social costs. Deforestation and forest degradation often lie at the intersection of local, direct (proximate) drivers with indirect, underlying drivers acting at multiple scales. Indirect drivers linked to globalisation are, however, now recognised as critically important due to the continued growth in international trade in agricultural commodities. Given the multi-level and geographically disparate nature of many drivers, combating deforestation and forest degradation presents a particularly complex environmental governance challenge. Furthermore, the absence of a single overarching international agreement on forests has historically led to a highly fragmented approach to forest governance, from the international to the local level. Forest governance is multiscale and networked in nature, and implemented through a wide range of policy instruments at different levels.One key such policy initiative, which has been the subject of sustained scholarly and policy attention, is 'reducing emissions from deforestation' in developing countries (known as RED). Discussions were initiated under the umbrella of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by a group of developing countries in 2005. The aim was to set up a mechanism under the climate regime to financially reward developing countries for conserving the carbon stored in tropical forests. The RED concept was expanded in 2007 to also include compensation for the sustainable management of forests and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries. It then became widely known as REDD+. Recent discussions in the environmental governance literature have been characterised by a renewed emphasis on such integrated policy approaches at the nexus of different environmental policy areas, as essential to stimulating 'transformational change'. One quintessential example of the effort to integrate diverse policy arenas are the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a policy initiative that has developed at the nexus of two environmental policy areas, which is multi-level in nature and brought together a wide range of diverse actors, REDD+ is ideally placed to shed light on whether and how integrated approaches to policy-making can stimulate the hoped-for transformational change needed to address environmental challenges, and achieve the environmental SDGsThis thesis uses a networked governance perspective to examine the evolution of the REDD+ initiative and its transformational potential to tackle tropical deforestation and forest degradation. Diverse evolving conceptualisations and operationalisations of REDD+ at local, landscape and international levels are examined to assess the ability of each to combat the direct and indirect drivers of tropical forest loss and degradation. In so doing, the thesis also examines how the evolution and implementation of REDD+ has been influenced by its integration into other policy areas beyond forest and climate policies over time, and the extent to which growing integration of REDD+ into a broader policy landscape impacts upon its ability to deliver transformational change.The thesis answers the following two overarching research questions, through detailed qualitative analysis in four chapters (published in international peer reviewed journals):• To what extent have evolving conceptualisations of REDD+ effectively tackled direct and indirect drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, operating at different levels?• From a networked governance perspective, to what extent is REDD+ becoming integrated across policy domains and how is this impacting its ability to deliver transformational change?Chapter 2 analyses and synthesises how REDD+ is being conceptualised in practice. The three conceptualisations of REDD+ described and examined in this chapter are: a co-benefit-centred REDD+ (wherein REDD+ aims to achieve co-benefits for biodiversity and communities); a carbon-centred REDD+ (in which REDD+ is mainly a climate mitigation strategy); and a landscape-oriented REDD+ (in which REDD+ is instituted along with broader agricultural and sustainable land use practices). The chapter assesses the extent to which these diverse conceptualisations are addressing direct and indirect drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, and how well they are meeting the high expectations associated with REDD+. The chapter shows that, in assessing evolving expectations against existing REDD+ experiences, a mixed picture emerges. Some expectations, relating to forest carbon financing for example, are not being adequately met, while others, notably the delivery of co-benefits, hold out more promise. It concludes that the future of REDD+ may lie not in one conceptualisation coming to dominate, but rather in the coexistence of heterogeneous practices, which may provide building blocks for the polycentric governance of the world's remaining tropical forests.Chapter 3 analyses the co-benefit conceptualisation in more detail, through a meta-analysis of REDD+ projects spread across the globe. This analysis identifies the links, if any, between the benefits accruing from and being shared through REDD+ projects, and the multiple and diverse drivers of. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest).

ISBN: 9798597031798Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Agriculture.
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REDD+

An Assessment of the Transformational Potential of REDD+ in Tackling Drivers of Deforestation.
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Forest governance is multiscale and networked in nature, and implemented through a wide range of policy instruments at different levels.One key such policy initiative, which has been the subject of sustained scholarly and policy attention, is 'reducing emissions from deforestation' in developing countries (known as RED). Discussions were initiated under the umbrella of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by a group of developing countries in 2005. The aim was to set up a mechanism under the climate regime to financially reward developing countries for conserving the carbon stored in tropical forests. The RED concept was expanded in 2007 to also include compensation for the sustainable management of forests and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries. It then became widely known as REDD+. Recent discussions in the environmental governance literature have been characterised by a renewed emphasis on such integrated policy approaches at the nexus of different environmental policy areas, as essential to stimulating 'transformational change'. One quintessential example of the effort to integrate diverse policy arenas are the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a policy initiative that has developed at the nexus of two environmental policy areas, which is multi-level in nature and brought together a wide range of diverse actors, REDD+ is ideally placed to shed light on whether and how integrated approaches to policy-making can stimulate the hoped-for transformational change needed to address environmental challenges, and achieve the environmental SDGsThis thesis uses a networked governance perspective to examine the evolution of the REDD+ initiative and its transformational potential to tackle tropical deforestation and forest degradation. Diverse evolving conceptualisations and operationalisations of REDD+ at local, landscape and international levels are examined to assess the ability of each to combat the direct and indirect drivers of tropical forest loss and degradation. 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The three conceptualisations of REDD+ described and examined in this chapter are: a co-benefit-centred REDD+ (wherein REDD+ aims to achieve co-benefits for biodiversity and communities); a carbon-centred REDD+ (in which REDD+ is mainly a climate mitigation strategy); and a landscape-oriented REDD+ (in which REDD+ is instituted along with broader agricultural and sustainable land use practices). The chapter assesses the extent to which these diverse conceptualisations are addressing direct and indirect drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, and how well they are meeting the high expectations associated with REDD+. The chapter shows that, in assessing evolving expectations against existing REDD+ experiences, a mixed picture emerges. Some expectations, relating to forest carbon financing for example, are not being adequately met, while others, notably the delivery of co-benefits, hold out more promise. It concludes that the future of REDD+ may lie not in one conceptualisation coming to dominate, but rather in the coexistence of heterogeneous practices, which may provide building blocks for the polycentric governance of the world's remaining tropical forests.Chapter 3 analyses the co-benefit conceptualisation in more detail, through a meta-analysis of REDD+ projects spread across the globe. This analysis identifies the links, if any, between the benefits accruing from and being shared through REDD+ projects, and the multiple and diverse drivers of. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest).
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