Journal article
Unravelling property relations around forest carbon
Sango Mahanty, Wolfram Dressler, Sarah Milne, Colin Filer
SINGAPORE JOURNAL OF TROPICAL GEOGRAPHY | WILEY | Published : 2013
DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12024
Abstract
Market-based interventions to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) enable the carbon stored in land and forests to be traded as a new and intangible form of property. Using examples from Cambodia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, we examine the property negotiations underpinning this new forest carbon economy. We show that the institutions and land use negotiations needed to 'produce' forest carbon interact recursively with existing property claims over land and forests. Even where customary rights are formally recognized (PNG, Philippines), claims to forest carbon are still complicated by ambiguities and complexities surrounding rights to forested land. Me..
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