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Carbon Sequestration in Community Forests: Trade-offs, Multiple Outcomes and Institutional Diversity in the Bolivian Amazon
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Bottazzi, Patrick
Crespo, David
Soria, Harry
Dao, Quoc-Hy
Serrudo, Marcelo
Benavides, Jean Paul
Schwarzer, Stefan
Rist, Stephan
Published in Development and change. 2014, vol. 45, no. 1, p. 105-131
Abstract Carbon sequestration in community forests presents a major challenge for the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programme. This article uses a comparative analysis of the agricultural and forestry practices of indigenous peoples and settlers in the Bolivian Amazon to show how community-level institutions regulate the trade-offs between community livelihoods, forest species diversity, and carbon sequestration. The authors argue that REDD+ implementation in such areas runs the risk of: 1) reinforcing economic inequalities based on previous and potential land use impacts on ecosystems (baseline), depending on the socio-cultural groups targeted; 2) increasing pressure on land used for food production, possibly reducing food security and redirecting labour towards scarce off-farm income opportunities; 3) increasing dependence on external funding and carbon market fluctuations instead of local production strategies; and 4) further incentivising the privatization and commodification of land to avoid transaction costs associated with collective property rights. The article also advises against taking a strictly economic, market-based approach to carbon sequestration, arguing that such an approach could endanger fragile socio-ecological systems. REDD+ schemes should directly support existing efforts towards forest sustainability rather than simply compensating local land users for avoiding deforestation and forest degradation.
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Centres et instituts / Institut des sciences de l'environnement
Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de géographie et environnement
Faculté des sciences de la société / Institut de la gouvernance de l'environnement et du développement territorial
Research groups Global Resource Information Database (GRID)
ISE Pôle Informatique environnementale
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Pôle/Institut Gouvernance de l'environnement et développement territorial (PI-GEDT)
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(ISO format) 		BOTTAZZI, Patrick et al. Carbon Sequestration in Community Forests: Trade-offs, Multiple Outcomes and Institutional Diversity in the Bolivian Amazon. In: Development and change, 2014, vol. 45, n° 1, p. 105-131. doi: 10.1111/dech.12076 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:74869

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