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1 Samek, J. H.; Kinhom, U.; Skole, D. L.; Uttaruk, P.; Laosuwan, T.; Khoa, P. V.; Thongmanivong, S.; Butthep, C.; Lan, D. X.; Giap, N. X. 2014. Integrating community-based participatory carbon measurement and monitoring with satellite remote sensing and GIS in REDD+ MRV systems. In Lebel, L.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Krittasudthacheewa, C.; Daniel, R. (Eds.). Climate risks, regional integration and sustainability in the Mekong region. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRDC); Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). pp.285-308.
Carbon stock assessments ; Satellite observation ; Remote sensing ; GIS ; Climate change ; REDD-plus ; Forests ; Emission reduction ; Measurement ; Monitoring ; Participatory approaches ; Community involvement ; Case studies / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Thailand / Vietnam / Mekong Region
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI, e-copy SF Record No: H046922)
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2 Enters, T. 2014. Climate change mitigation and forests of Sri Lanka. Soba Parisara Prakashanaya, 23(2):33-35.
Climate change ; Forests ; REDD-plus ; Emission reduction ; Forest degradation ; Deforestation / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 8158 Record No: H047161)
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3 Golub, A.; Lubowski, R.; Piris-Cabezas, P. 2017. Balancing risks from climate policy uncertainties: the role of options and reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Ecological Economics, 138:90-98. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.03.013]
Climate change ; Policy ; Uncertainty ; Risk reduction ; Emission reduction ; Deforestation ; Forest degradation ; REDD-plus ; Carbon markets ; Prices ; Costs ; Private enterprises ; Regulations ; Models
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048471)
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Progressively adjusting climate policies will entail adjustment costs for society. This paper develops a conceptual model and numerical example that illustrate the risk associated with exposure to the high costs of complying with future emissions controls and how this risks trades off against that from potentially premature investment into abatement. We then highlight the potentially unique role of tropical forest protection in helping to manage these risks by providing a cost-effective “buffer” of near term emissions reductions at a globally significant scale. This buffer would provide insurance against the risk of suddenly tightening targets, as well as providing other critical environmental benefits. We further examine how a version of a private finance instrument in the form of long-dated ‘call’ options on verified reductions in emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (i.e. REDD +) can help to operationalize this risk-hedging buffer creation. Options on REDD + could aid both regulated businesses and tropical nations to manage their respective risks. REDD + options could deliver sufficient abatement to significantly hedge exposure of regulated entities to potential corrections in climate policy while channeling financial resources to defer deforestation even as climate policies continue to evolve.
4 Kansanga, M. M.; Luginaah, I. 2019. Agrarian livelihoods under siege: carbon forestry, tenure constraints and the rise of capitalist forest enclosures in Ghana. World Development, 113:131-142. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.09.002]
Forest resources ; Agrarian structure ; Living standards ; Carbon ; REDD-plus ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Land tenure ; Land access ; Displacement ; Local communities / Africa South of Sahara / Ghana / Bosomoa-Kintampo Forest District / Offinso Forest District
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049161)
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Drawing on theoretical insights from agrarian political economy, and based on empirical research in the High Forest Zone of Ghana using in-depth interviews and participant observation, this paper examined the context-specific but often less highlighted impacts of REDD+-based carbon forest development activities on local agrarian livelihoods. We find that although REDD+ intends to align local communities to benefit financially for contributions to carbon forestry, its uptake in the Ghanaian context has created entry points for the displacement of smallholder farmers through unregulated profit-driven and restrictive plantation-style carbon forest activities. This yields landless smallholder farmers whose labour is craftily integrated into a capitalist carbon forestry regime as tree planters, with many others striving to reproduce themselves through exploitative sharecropping arrangements and corrupt ‘backdoor’ land deals. We emphasize that, ‘more than carbon’ accumulation engendered by REDD+ is fast moving beyond land grabs to a more complex dimension in which the labour and financial resources of marginalized groups are further appropriated by forest investors, and their relatively powerful counterparts in what we term intimate exploitation. Given the ongoing plight of smallholder farmers, particularly the multitude of ‘hungry’ migrant farmers who seek ‘salvation’ in the High Forest Zone, it is obvious that REDD+ is pushed at the expense of ensuring food security. To sustainably address current land-related agricultural production bottlenecks and empower local communities to directly benefit from REDD+, we recommend that rather than centralizing both carbon rights and land rights in the hands of the state and a few private investors, community forestlands should be returned to local people under community-led forest management approaches. Local control of both land and carbon stocks will promote sustainable coexistence of smallholder agriculture and carbon forestry.
5 Moscoso, A. M.; Larson, R. 2019. Forestry management and water law: comparing Ecuador and Arizona. Water International, 44(3):337-353. (Special issue: Legal Perspectives on Bridging Science and Policy) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2019.1595995]
Forest management ; Water law ; Regulations ; Water governance ; Water resources ; Water supply ; Water quality ; Water conservation ; REDD-plus ; Investment ; River basins ; Fund ; Case studies / USA / Ecuador / Arizona / Paute River Basin / Verde River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049274)
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This article compares public–private partnerships dedicated to improving forestry management to protect water in the Paute River basin in Ecuador (FONAPA) and the Verde River basin in Arizona (the Four Forest Restoration Initiative). Both programmes create incentives for improved forestry management and suggest lessons for water management in general but may face legal challenges that require reforms. While there is scope for mutual learning between the programmes, such cross-fertilization is inhibited by differences in the legal status of water and forest resources in the two systems
6 Abraham, B. M. 2021. Ideology and non-state climate action: partnering and design of REDD+ projects. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 21(4):669-690. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-021-09537-4]
Climate change ; Governance ; REDD-plus ; Environmental effects ; Private sector ; Political aspects ; Project design ; Non-governmental organizations ; Case studies ; Models / Latin America / Colombia / Peru
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050686)
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10784-021-09537-4.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050686.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050686.pdf
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Scholars and policymakers working on non-state climate action have tended to focus on functional considerations, largely neglecting questions of ideology. This article brings them into the spotlight by investigating how ideology affects climate action initiatives. Based on a new database of 389 projects associated with reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, the article examines how ideology affects project design and partnering. A quantitative analysis and four case studies of projects in Colombia and Peru show how environmental ideology shapes the preferences of project developers for project designs and partners. Two mechanisms that underlie this are also derived. The findings show how a focus on ideology can help open the black box of climate action initiatives and explain their substantive variation. They also offer insights into the ideological implications of the transnationalization of climate governance. Non-state climate action at once entrenches the neoliberal ideological status quo of climate politics and offers critical ideologies a foothold. This poses risks for the future effectiveness and legitimacy of non-state climate action and should be considered in the design of the emerging institutional architecture that supports it. This article also sets a platform for and outlines the contours of a future research agenda on ideology in climate action.
7 Lamain, C. 2022. Conflicting securities: contributions to a critical research agenda on climate security. Globalizations, 17p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2057093]
Climate change adaptation ; Climate change mitigation ; Financing ; Social aspects ; Environmental factors ; Conflicts ; Research ; Natural resources ; Political ecology ; REDD-plus ; Hydropower ; Investment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051201)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14747731.2022.2057093?needAccess=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051201.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051201.pdf
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Climate change is increasingly presented as a security issue; this ‘climate security’ discourse arguably imparts an even greater sense of urgency to the already alarming climate crisis. This article argues that the grounding for this narrative is thin, while its adoption in powerful avenues and thus its implications are substantial. Budgets for climate mitigation and adaptation measures, which often seek to control natural resources by assigning a monetary value to them, rise steadily. Ironically, climate policies themselves frequently contribute to socio-environmental conflicts, further marginalizing the users of land, water and forests. It is therefore important to disentangle whether and how climate security discourses further shape climate investments, to identify the key actors involved and to examine the part they play in socio-environmental conflicts. The article argues that a critical research agenda, based on but going beyond political ecology, is needed for more socially and environmentally just climate interventions.
8 Chen, S.; Olofsson, P.; Saphangthong, T.; Woodcock, C. E. 2023. Monitoring shifting cultivation in Laos with landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 288:113507. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113507]
Shifting cultivation ; Monitoring ; Landsat ; Swidden agriculture ; Forest degradation ; Deforestation ; Time series analysis ; Vegetation ; Landscape ; Land cover ; Land use ; REDD-plus / South East Asia / Lao People's Democratic Republic
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051717)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425723000585/pdfft?md5=3aec6f58a6fd04b9adde4b597b332649&pid=1-s2.0-S0034425723000585-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051717.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051717.pdf
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Shifting cultivation is an agricultural practice in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned, and vegetation is allowed to regenerate during fallow periods. Shifting cultivation is usually associated with cutting and burning forests and thus it is an important driver of forest disturbance in the tropics. However, studies of shifting cultivation are limited, and current area estimates of shifting cultivation are highly uncertain. Although Southeast Asia is a hotspot of shifting cultivation, there are no national maps of shifting cultivation in Southeast Asia at moderate or high resolution (less than or equal to 30 m). Monitoring shifting cultivation is challenging because it is highly dynamic, small-scale and results in complex post-disturbance landscapes. In this study, we monitored shifting cultivation using Landsat time series on Google Earth Engine for the entire country of Laos from 1991 to 2020. First, CCDC-SMA (Continuous Change Detection and Classification - Spectral Mixture Analysis) was used to detect forest disturbances. Then, these disturbances were attributed by combining time series analysis, object-based image analysis (OBIA), and post-disturbance land cover classification. Forest disturbances were assigned to Shifting cultivation, New plantation, Deforestation, Severe Drought, and Subtle Disturbance annually from 1991 to 2020 at a 30-m resolution. The major forest disturbances in 1991–2020 were mapped with an overall accuracy of 85%. Shifting cultivation is mapped with a producer's accuracy of 88% and a user's accuracy of 80%. The margin of error of the sampling-based area estimates of Shifting cultivation is 5.9%. Shifting cultivation is the main land use in Laos, accounting for 32.9% ± 1.9% of Laos over the past 30 years. To study changes in shifting cultivation over time, the area of shifting cultivation was estimated at 5-year intervals between 1991 and 2020 with all margins of error <17%. Results show that the area of slash-and-burn activities in Laos increased in 2015–2020. Our study provides an effective approach for monitoring shifting cultivation, which can be potentially applied into other regions. Our results not only provide valuable information for land management in Laos, but also can support analysis of spatial-temporal patterns of shifting cultivation and estimation of carbon emissions associated with shifting cultivation for REDD+ reporting.
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