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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.008
	Carbon forestry in West Africa: The politics of models, measures and verification processes
	Leach M.; Scoones I.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:5
英文摘要	In a context of neo-liberal environmental governance, imperatives for global climate change mitigation are motivating a new round of policy initiatives and projects aimed at carbon forestry: conserving and enhancing forest carbon stocks, and trading these values in emerging carbon markets. In this context modelling and measurement, always significant in framing and justifying forest policy initiatives, are of renewed importance, with a growing array of protocols focused on counting and accounting for forest carbon as a commodity. This article draws on perspectives from science and technology studies and environmental discourse analysis to explore how these modelling and measurement processes are being co-constructed with forest carbon policies and political economies, and applied in project design in local settings. Document analysis and key informant interviews are used to track and illustrate these processes in a pair of case studies of forest carbon projects in Sierra Leone and Ghana. These are chosen to highlight different project types - focused respectively on forest reserve and farm-forestry - in settings with multi-layered histories of people-forest relations, landscape change and prior project intervention. The analysis shows how longer established framings and assessments of deforestation are being re-invoked and re-worked amidst current carbon concerns. We demonstrate that measurement processes are not just technical but social and political, carrying and thus cementing particular views of landscape and social relations that in turn make likely particular kinds of intervention pathway, with fortress style conservation or plantations becoming the dominant approach. In the process, other possibilities - including alternative pathways that might treat and value carbon as part of complex, lived-in landscapes, or respond more adaptively to less equilibrial people-forest relations, are occluded. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Carbon; Forest; Landscape; Measurement; Politics; REDD+
学科领域	climate change; commodity; deforestation; environmental politics; forestry modeling; forestry policy; global climate; governance approach; neoliberalism; plantation forestry; policy analysis; political economy; Ghana; Sierra Leone
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; commodity; deforestation; environmental politics; forestry modeling; forestry policy; global climate; governance approach; neoliberalism; plantation forestry; policy analysis; political economy; Ghana; Sierra Leone
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117891
作者单位	STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Leach M.,Scoones I.. Carbon forestry in West Africa: The politics of models, measures and verification processes[J],2013,23(5).
APA	Leach M.,&Scoones I..(2013).Carbon forestry in West Africa: The politics of models, measures and verification processes.Global Environmental Change,23(5).
MLA	Leach M.,et al."Carbon forestry in West Africa: The politics of models, measures and verification processes".Global Environmental Change 23.5(2013).