Political Ecology of REDD+ in Indonesia Agrarian Conflicts and Forest Carbon

• Main Author: Hein, Jonas I
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2018; Taylor and Francis; No Funder Information Available; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Political Ecology
• Subjects: Agrarian Conflicts; Agribusiness and primary industries; Agricultural science; Agriculture and farming; Anthropology; Applied ecology; BAL; Batang Hari; Batang Hari River; Birdlife International; Carbon offsetting; Carbon offsetting > Indonesia; Climate change; Conservation Concession; Conservation NGOs; Conservation of the environment; Customary Territories; Deforestation; Deforestation > Indonesia; Deforestation > Social aspects > Indonesia; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Ecology; Economics; Economics of specific sectors; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Environmental policy and protocols; Farming Group Member; Forest Carbon; Forest Carbon Offsets; Forest Conversion; Forest Governance; Forestry; Forestry and silviculture; Geography; Greenhouse gas mitigation; Greenhouse gas mitigation > Indonesia; Human geography; Indonesia; Industry and industrial studies; Interdisciplinary studies; Jonas I. Hein; Land Tenure Governance; National Redd; Oil Palm Companies; Oil Palm Cultivation; Pilot Province; Political Ecology; Pollution and threats to the environment; REDD; Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; River Head; Smallholder Oil Palm; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; South East Asian Studies; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; The environment; Transmigration Program; Transmigration Settlements; UNFCCC Conference; Vice Versa; Village Governments; Voluntary Carbon Markets; Oil Palm Companies; Voluntary Carbon Markets; Customary Territories; Forest Carbon; Vice Versa; Birdlife International; Forest Conversion; River Head; Agrarian Conflicts; UNFCCC Conference; Oil Palm Cultivation; Pilot Province; Batang Hari River; Transmigration Program; BAL; Farming Group Member; Village Governments; Conservation Concession; Transmigration Settlements; Conservation NGOs; National Redd; Forest Carbon Offsets; Land Tenure Governance; Smallholder Oil Palm; Batang Hari
• ISBN: 9781351066013; 1351066013; 9781138479319; 1138479314; 0367582805; 9780367582807; 9781351065993; 1351066021; 9781351066006; 1351066005; 1351065998; 9781351066020
• DOI: 10.4324/9781351066020

Indonesia’s commitment to reducing land-based greenhouse gas emissions significantly includes the expansion of conservation areas, but these developments are not free of conflicts. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of agrarian conflicts in the context of the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) and forest carbon offsetting in Indonesia, a country where deforestation is a major issue. The author analyzes new kinds of transnational agrarian conflicts which have strong implications for global environmental justice in the REDD+ pilot province of Jambi on the island of Sumatra. The chapters cover: the rescaling of the governance of forests; privatization of conservation; and the transnational dimensions of agrarian conflicts and peasants' resistance in the context of REDD+. The book builds on an innovative conceptual approach linking political ecology, politics of scale and theories of power. It fills an important knowledge and research gap by focusing on the socially differentiated impacts of REDD+ and new forest carbon offsetting initiatives in Southeast Asia, providing a multi-scalar perspective. It is aimed at scholars in the areas of political ecology, human geography, climate change mitigation, forest and natural resource management, as well as environmental justice and agrarian studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781351066020, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.