Year: 2017
Type: book
Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive socio-legal examination of how global efforts to fight climate change by reducing carbon emissions in the forestry sector (known as REDD+) have affected the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in developing countries. Grounded in extensive qualitative empirical research conducted globally, the book shows that the transnational legal process for REDD+ has created both serious challenges and unexpected opportunities for the recognition and protection of indigenous and community rights. It reveals that the pursuit of REDD+ has resulted in important variations in how human rights standards are understood and applied across multiple sites of law in the field of REDD+, with mixed results for indigenous peoples and local communities in Indonesia and Tanzania. With its original findings, rigourous research design, and interdisciplinary analytical framework, this book will make a valuable contribution to the study of transnational legal processes in a globalizing world. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author: Sébastien Jodoin
Institution: McGill University
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funders: United States Agency for International Development, Yale University, Wildlife Conservation Society, McGill University, United Nations Development Programme, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, University of Cambridge, European Commission, Australian Agency for International Development, Centre for International Forestry Research, Department for International Development, Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, H2020 European Research Council, FP7 International Cooperation
OpenAlex ID: W3160569046