Thebricolageof REDD+ in Zanzibar: from global environmental policy framework to community forest management
| Autor: | Grete Benjaminsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
History Sociology and Political Science Process (engineering) business.industry 050204 development studies 05 social sciences Forest management Environmental resource management 0507 social and economic geography Public administration Bricolage Incentive Deforestation Anthropology Political science 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations Ethnography business 050703 geography Legitimacy Meaning (linguistics) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Eastern African Studies. 11:506-525 |
| ISSN: | 1753-1063 1753-1055 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17531055.2017.1357103 |
| Popis: | The policy framework known as Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is based on the underlying idea of creating economic incentives for forest conservation and CO2 emission reductions. This article explores what happens when REDD+, as a globally conceived environmental policy framework, is translated into practice in Zanzibar. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among actors involved in the policy translation process, the article investigates how these actors receive, interpret and give meaning to the introduction of REDD+. With the concept of institutional bricolage as an overarching perspective, the article engages in a discussion of what factors provide legitimacy to REDD+ at policy level in Zanzibar, and moreover, why certain elements of the REDD+ policy framework are incorporated into practice while others are discarded. The article demonstrates how actors make creative use of the resources available, but only within a spectrum that allows for reinvention of establis... |
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