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The Social Life of Forest Carbon: Property and Politics in the Production of a New Commodity

Date

Authors

Mahanty, Sanghamitra (Sango)

Milne, Sarah

Dressler, Wolfram

Filer, Colin

Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Abstract

Interventions to conserve carbon stored in forests are central to the emerging global climate change regime. Widely referred to as REDD+, these interventions engage local resource holders in contracts to restrict their use of land and forests in exchange

Keywords

Keywords: carbon sequestration; climate change; commodity market; environmental economics; environmental politics; forest dynamics; global change; land tenure; Cambodia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines Commodity; Forest carbon; Property; REDD+

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/68357

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Human Ecology (Journal)

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1007/s10745-012-9524-1

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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