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Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa (Hardcover)
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Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
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Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last
decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world,
designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to
reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions
elsewhere. Exploring a set of new empirical case studies, Carbon
Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa examines how these
projects are unfolding, their effects, and who is gaining and
losing. Situating forest carbon approaches as part of more general
moves to address environmental problems by attaching market values
to nature and ecosystems, it examines how new projects interact
with forest landscapes and their longer histories of intervention.
The book asks: what difference does carbon make? What political and
ecological dynamics are unleashed by these new commodified,
marketized approaches, and how are local forest users experiencing
and responding to them? The book's case studies cover a wide range
of African ecologies, project types and national political-economic
contexts. By examining these cases in a comparative framework and
within an understanding of the national, regional and global
institutional arrangements shaping forest carbon commoditisation,
the book provides a rich and compelling account of how and why
carbon conflicts are emerging, and how they might be avoided in
future. This book will be of interest to students of development
studies, environmental sciences, geography, economics, development
studies and anthropology, as well as practitioners and policy
makers.
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