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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824377503321

Titolo

Climate change, forests and REDD : lessons for institutional design / / edited by Joyeeta Gupta, Nicolien van der Grijp and Onno Kuik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-13025-6

1-138-80964-0

0-203-07722-9

1-299-14118-8

1-135-13026-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in environmental law

Altri autori (Persone)

GrijpNicolien van der

GuptaJoyeeta <1964->

KuikOnno <1955->

Disciplina

577.27

Soggetti

Carbon sequestration

Climate change mitigation - International cooperation

Deforestation - Environmental aspects

Forest degradation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Climate Change, Forests and REDD: Lessons for Institutional Design; Contents; Tables; Figures; Boxes; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Climate change and forests: From the Noordwijk Declaration to REDD; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Climate change; 1.2.1 The physical problem; 1.2.2 The governance process; 1.2.3 The key political challenges; 1.3 Forests; 1.3.1 Current status; 1.3.2 Deforestation and degradation; 1.3.3 The governance process; 1.3.4 The key political challenges; 1.4 Climate change and forests; 1.5 The research questions and the analytical framework; 1.6 Inferences

2 The forest transition, the drivers of deforestation and governance approaches2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The forest transition; 2.3 The drivers of deforestation; 2.3.1 Generic drivers and forest transitions; 2.3.2 Drivers of deforestation in different regions; 2.4 Instruments of forest governance; 2.4.1 Introduction; 2.4.2 Forest transitions, drivers and



forest policy; 2.4.3 Classifying governance instruments; 2.4.4 Regulatory instruments; 2.4.5 Economic and market instruments; 2.4.6 Suasive, information and research instruments; 2.4.7 Management measures; 2.4.8 Forest instruments and drivers

2.5 Inferences3 Global forest governance; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Institutions; 3.2.1 A brief history; 3.2.2 Global institutions with a forest-focused mandate; 3.2.3 Global institutions with a forest-related mandate and/or an indirect impact on forest services; 3.2.4 Global governance institutions and ecosystem services; 3.2.5 Regional institutions with a forest-focused mandate; 3.2.6 Regional institutions with a forest-related mandate and/or an indirect impact on forest services; 3.2.7 Extra-territorial impacts of national governance

3.3 Key principles and concepts in international forest governance3.3.1 Key principles; 3.3.2 Key concepts; 3.4 Instruments of international forest governance; 3.4.1 Regulatory instruments; 3.4.2 Economic instruments; 3.4.3 Suasive instruments; 3.5 Inferences; 4 The emergence of REDD on the global policy agenda; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Forests under the UN Climate Convention and the Kyoto Protocol; 4.2.1 Early days: the forest-climate pre-Kyoto debate; 4.2.2 Forests in the Kyoto Protocol - 'integrating forest commitments into the climate regime'; 4.3 The emergence of REDD

4.3.1 REDD in the UNFCCC negotiations4.3.2 REDD developments outside the UNFCCC; 4.4 Key challenges for REDD at the international level: designing an effective, robust mechanism; 4.4.1 The right scale for REDD; 4.4.2 Reference levels; 4.4.3 Financing REDD; 4.4.4 Monitoring, reporting and verification; 4.4.5 Permanence, additionality and leakage; 4.4.6 Safeguards; 4.5 Key challenges for REDD at the domestic level: implementation and benefit-sharing; 4.5.1 The impact of REDD to date; 4.5.2 Challenges of good governance, tenure and internal benefit-sharing

4.5.3 Risks and implications of commodifying forest carbon

Sommario/riassunto

A search for new methods for dealing with climate change led to the identification of forest maintenance as a potential policy option that could cost-effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with the development of measures for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). This book explores how an analysis of past forest governance patterns from the global through to the local level, can help us to build institutions which more effectively deal with forests within the climate change regime. The book assesses the options for reducing emissions from deforestation i