Climate Change, Forests and REDD
Lessons for Institutional Design
This book explores how an analysis of past forest governance patterns from the global through to the local level, can help us to build institutions which more effectively deal with forests within the climate change regime.
Edited
by Joyeeta
Gupta, Nicolien
van der
Grijp, Onno
Kuik
A search for new methods for dealing with climate change led to the
identification of forest maintenance as a potential policy option that could
cost-effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with the development of
measures for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
(REDD).
The book assesses the options for reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries under the international climate regime, as well as the incentives flowing from them at the national and sub national level and examines how these policy levers change human behaviour and interface with the drivers and pressures of land use change in tropical forests.
The book considers the trade-offs between certain forestry related policies within the current climate regime and the larger goal of sustainable forestry.