Broschiertes Buch

The Carbon Fix

Forest Carbon, Social Justice, and Environmental Governance

Herausgeber: Paladino, Stephanie; Fiske, Shirley J

Beschreibung

Given the growing urgency to develop global responses to a changing climate, The Carbon Fix examines the social and equity dimensions of putting the world's forests-and, necessarily, the rural people who manage and depend on them-at the center of climate policy efforts such as REDD+, intended to slow global warming. The book assesses the implications of international policy approaches that focus on forests as carbon and especially, forest carbon offsets, for rights, justice, and climate governance. Contributions from leading anthropologists and geographers analyze a growing trend towards market principles and financialization of nature in environmental governance, placing it into conceptual, critical, and historical context. The book then challenges perceptions of forest carbon initiatives through in-depth, field-based case studies assessing projects, policies, and procedures at various scales, from informed consent to international carbon auditing. While providing a mixed assessment of the potential for forest carbon initiatives to balance carbon with social goals, the authors present compelling evidence for the complexities of the carbon offset enterprise, fraught with competing interests and interpretations at multiple scales, and having unanticipated and often deleterious effects on the resources and rights of the world's poorest peoples-especially indigenous and rural peoples. The Carbon Fix provides nuanced insights into political, economic, and ethical issues associated with climate change policy. Its case approach and fresh perspective are critical to environmental professionals, development planners, and project managers; and to students in upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental anthropology and geography, environmental and policy studies, international development, and indigenous studies.

Autor

Stephanie Paladino, Ph.D., is an environmental anthropologist with the Center for Applied Social Research, University of Oklahoma, and Co-Editor of Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment. She researches how environmental governance strengthens equity and sustainability, most recently in the areas of carbon forestry offset markets, oil spill response, ecologically protected areas, and the Rio Grande basin. Shirley J. Fiske is an environmental anthropologist with career experience in the executive and legislative branches of the US government in ocean, climate, and natural resources management policy and governance. Most recently she worked on carbon sequestration and climate change cap-and-trade legislation in the US Senate. She is currently Research Professor at the University of Maryland and recent chair of a national task force on climate change for the American Anthropological Association (2011-2014) (www.aaanet.org).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Left Coast Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781611323337
• ISBN-10: 1611323339
• Artikelnr.: 44157665