Description: There is an enthusiasm amongst academics, policymakers and forest practitioners about protecting tropical forests for climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation (Agrawal et al. 2011). The enthusiasm manifests in the development and adoption of the reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries commonly known as REDD+ (Ibid: 375). This PhD research considers REDD+ and associated initiatives such as conservation agriculture and sustainable charcoal production, as new forms of environmental governance that combines globalisation, decentralisation, marketisation and technologisation elements across scales to set up regulatory processes, mechanisms and organizations through which political actors influence environmental actions and outcomes (Lamos and Agrawal 2006: 298). Tanzania, a tropical country with a total forest area of 48.1 million hectares, covering 55% of the total land area in Tanzania mainland (MNRT 2015), has also been enthusiastic about REDD+. With over 90 million USD grant from the Norwegian government, it has: developed a national REDD+ strategy and its action plan; piloted REDD+ involving local and international conservation NGOs; and established institutions to develop a national REDD+ regime. Studies in other tropical African countries show that REDD+ operates on the basis of partial deforestation discourses that are characterised with messages of blame towards rural poor for causing local deforestation and degradation (Kamelarczyk and Smith-Hall 2014; Leach and Scoones 2013). It is based on the narratives that depoliticise tropical forest realities shaped by formal and informal socio-political structures (Kamelarczyk and Smith-Hall 2014). It echoes persistent views that put rural peasants as central agents for rapid deforestation and re-invokes the longer established apolitical narratives of tropical deforestation amidst current carbon concerns and ample scientific researches to the contrary showing how partial such narratives are ((Leach and Scoones 2013). The narratives have produced techno-managerial form of governance, which constructs REDD+ as an intervention requiring external expertise and neoliberal market rationalities to succeed (McGregor 2010). However, as deforestation has diverse meanings and values to different people and instituions (Leach et al. 2010), the understanding regarding how and why REDD+ is based on certain deforestation discourse and narratives is limited in Tanzania. That is, there is a limited knowledge with regard to politics and power dynamics of multiple knowledge production and application, especially about different ways of understanding, representing and characterising deforestation at the policy level. (abridged text)
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Tags: Entwaldung ? Holzkohle ? Waldverlust ? Kohlenstoff ? Ökologie ? Umweltzerstörung ? Tansania ? Waldklima ? Gesamtkohlenstoff ? Marketing ? Regulierung ? Konservierung ? Waldfläche ? Anpassungsstrategie ? Nachhaltigkeitspolitik ? Produktionstechnik ? Landfläche ? Marktentwicklung ? Naturwald ? Emissionsminderung ? Politikberatung ? Energie ? Studie ? Tropengebiet ? Tropenwald ? Waldschutz ? Klimaschutz ? Agrarforschung ? Globale Veränderung ? Afrika ? Klimafolgen ? Klimaanpassung ? Schutz der Biodiversität ? REDD+ ? Entwicklungsland ? Nachhaltige Bewirtschaftung ? Umweltschutz ? Umweltpolitik ? Forstwirtschaft ? Nachhaltigkeit ? Armutsbekämpfung ? Klimawandel ? Forschung ? Persistenz ? Umweltverhalten ? stry policy ? Political ecology ? Tanzania ? deforestation narratives ? Dezentralisierung ? Antragsrecht ? neoliberal conservation ?
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Englisch/English
Time ranges: 2014-09-01 - 2017-09-30
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