Abstract
Since the 1980s, central governments have decentralized forestry to local governments in many countries of the Global South. More recently, REDD+ has started to impact forest policy-making in these countries by providing incentives to ensure a national-level approach to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Höhne et al. analyze to what extent central governments have rebuilt capacity at the national level, imposed regulations from above, and interfered in forest management by local governments for advancing REDD+. Using the examples of Brazil and Indonesia, the chapter illustrates that while REDD+ has not initiated a large-scale recentralization in the forestry sector, it has supported the reinforcement and pooling of REDD+ related competences at the central government level.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Global Forest Governance and Climate Change |
| Subtitle of host publication | Interrogating Representation, Participation, and Decentralization |
| Editors | Emmanuel O. Nuesiri |
| Place of Publication | Basingstoke |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 203-241 |
| Number of pages | 39 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-319-71946-7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-030-10133-6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary