Thomas Hickmann
Associate professor | Senior lecturer | Recognised Teaching Practitioner
REDD+ and the Reconfiguration of Public Authority in the Forest Sector : A Comparative Case Study of Indonesia and Brazil
Author
Editor
- Emmanuel O. Nuesiri
Summary, in English
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.
Publishing year
2018
Language
English
Pages
203-241
Publication/Series
Global Forest Governance and Climate Change : Interrogating Representation, Participation, and Decentralization
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Topic
- Political Science (excluding Peace and Conflict Studies)
- Other Social Sciences
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-3-030-10133-6
- ISBN: 978-3-319-71946-7