Between Resistance and Consent: Project–Village Relationships When Introducing REDD+ in Zanzibar
| Autor: | Grete Benjaminsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Forest management Environmental resource management Psychological intervention Global South Resistance (psychoanalysis) Development Negotiation Geography Deforestation Ethnography Forest degradation business Environmental planning media_common |
| Zdroj: | Forum for Development Studies. 41:377-398 |
| ISSN: | 1891-1765 0803-9410 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08039410.2014.961953 |
| Popis: | Reductions of Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is one example of a globally important environmental intervention implemented throughout the global South. This article investigates the possibilities for rural villagers to influence these interventions, and thus negotiate access to forest resources at the local level. Based on data from ethnographic fieldwork in Zanzibar, the article explores a process where representatives from one village and forest authorities negotiate a Community Forest Management Agreement that will be part of a future REDD scheme in Zanzibar. The article reviews the multiple local responses to this pre-REDD process and discusses factors that contribute to shaping these responses. Local claims about ‘lost land’ and ‘disappearing benefits’ are at the core of what villagers want to see redressed by taking part in the REDD project. But despite the seemingly great local expectations towards the arrival of the project, as well as the project's self-presentation as ... |
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