Missing the forest for the data? Conflicting valuations of the forest and cultivable lands

Autor: Pierre-Marie Aubert, Emmanuelle Cheyns, Laura Silva-Castañeda
Přispěvatelé: Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs (UMR MOISA), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM), Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Université Paris-Est (UPE), Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI), Institut d'Études Politiques [IEP] - Paris, This research received funding from the French government in the framework of the programme 'Investissements d’avenir' and of the project 'SPOP' managed by the French national agency for research, respectively under the references ANR-10-LABX-14-01 and ANR-11-AGRO-0007., ANR-10-LABX-0014,IDGM+,Designing new international development policies from research outcomes. An enhanced(2010), ANR-11-AGRO-0007,SPOP,Sustainable Development of Palm Oil Production: Designing strategies from improved knowledge on oil palm cropping systems(2011), Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Natural resource economics
Vegetation classification
Geography
Planning and Development
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
Carbon sequestration
01 natural sciences
Pragmatic sociology
11. Sustainability
Realm
K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales
High carbon stock
K70 - Dégâts causés aux forêts et leur protection
Elaeis guineensis
Stock (geology)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Valuation (finance)
[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology
business.industry
021107 urban & regional planning
Forestry
Environmental valuation
15. Life on land
Déboisement
séquestration du carbone
13. Climate action
Agriculture
protection de la forêt
Oil palm
Sustainability
Forêt
Criticism
Local communities
P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières
business
Forest conservation
Zdroj: Land Use Policy
Land Use Policy, Elsevier, 2020, 96, pp.103591. ⟨10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.08.042⟩
ISSN: 0264-8377
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.08.042⟩
Popis: International audience; In reaction to Greenpeace campaigns denouncing the impact of oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia, Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) – a major actor in the palm oil sector – adopted a zero-deforestation policy. The implementation of this policy raised a simple, albeit tricky, question: what is a forest? In response, Greenpeace, GAR and a consultancy firm developed a methodology for forest classification called the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach. Employing a vegetation classification based primarily on a threshold of carbon sequestration, the method identifies which forested zones to protect from conversion to agriculture. While currently gaining resonance in the realm of sustainability standards, its implementation in Indonesia and Liberia encountered resistance and criticism by rural dwellers and social NGOs. How did HCS advocates integrate local peoples’ concerns, interests and claims to compose commonality? By analysing the HCS methodology's content, implementation and progressive adaptation, this article shows how HCS advocates favoured a specific mode of composition: one that fits a liberal grammar and that has specific implications on the valuation of forest and cultivable lands. The HCS approach is thus more than a data collection tool; it encapsulates and reinforces a particular vision of the environment and how people should relate to it.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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