Emily Boyd
Professor, Docent
Are REDD+ community forest projects following the principles for collective action, as proposed by Ostrom?
Author
Summary, in English
Forested countries in the global south that have agreed to engage in REDD+, a policy mechanism for addressing climate change, are receiving support to improve laws, policies, systems and structures. As a mechanism initiated at the global level and seeking to use forests to address a global commons crisis (atmospheric carbon concentration), understanding how REDD+ translates into implementation at the local level is essential. Therefore, using a systematic review approach, we examined 15 studies of REDD+ in the context of public and/or community managed forests, drawn from a comprehensive application of inclusion criteria to identify relevant published peer-reviewed empirical research. The common property resources literature was used to highlight the role of local institutions in REDD+ and to distil how REDD+ community forest projects conform to Ostrom’s collective action principles. The review revealed limited sharing of information and decision-making authority with communities; a general absence of FPIC; and a lack of defined benefit sharing and conflict resolution arrangements in many of the REDD+ projects.
Department/s
- LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
Publishing year
2017
Language
English
Pages
572-596
Publication/Series
International Journal of the Commons
Volume
11
Issue
1
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
International Association for the Study of the Commons
Topic
- Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
- Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
Keywords
- Climate change
- Collective action
- Forest
- Local communities
- REDD+
- Systematic review
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1875-0281