This edited collection assesses governance in forestry programmes and projects, including REDD+ governance. It examines political representation, participation and decentralisation in forest governance, providing insight as to how forest governance arrangements can be responsive to the socio-economic interests of local people and communities who live adjacent to and depend on forests.

Global Forest Governance and Climate Change argues that inclusive complementary representation of local communities is required for strong participatory processes and democratic decentralisation of forest governance. Responsiveness to local people's socio-economic interests in forestry initiatives require paying attention to not just the hosting of participatory meetings and activities, but also to the full cast of appointed, self-authorized, and elected representative agents that stand, speak, and act for local people.

This book will be of interest to students and academicsacross the fields of climate change governance, forestry, development studies, and political economy. It will also be a useful resource for policy makers and practitioners responsible for forestry and climate change initiatives.

Demonstrates the importance of representation, participation and decentralization in the relationship between climate change and forestry governance Critically explores the different types of political representation in forest governance and their potential to strengthen participation Offers an invaluable resource to policy makers, NGOs and local communities involved in various types of forestry projects

Autorentext
Emmanuel O. Nuesiri is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and a Research Affiliate with the Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA. His research interests include democratic decentralisation, participation, and political representation in climate change and forestry initiatives such as REDD+.

Inhalt

1. Global Forest Governance and Climate Change: Introduction and Overview; Emmanuel O. Nuesiri .- 2. Godfather Politics and Exclusionary Local Representation in REDD+: Case Study of the Design of the UN-REDD Supervised Nigeria-REDD Proposal; Emmanuel O. Nuesiri .- 3. The Illusion of Participation: Tokenism in REDD+ Pilot Projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); Raymond Achu Samndong .- 4. Institutional Choice and Substantive Representation of Local People in Carbon Forestry in Uganda; Robert Mbeche .- 5. Displacement, Power and REDD+: A Forest History of Carbonized Exclusion; Emma Jane Lord .- 6. Examining the Supply and Demand of Effective Participation and Representation; George Akwah Neba, Gretchen Walters, Ha-Young Jung .- 7. Experience of Participatory Forest Management in India - Lessons for Governance and Institutional Arrangements under REDD+; Indu K. Murthy et al. .- 8. REDD+ and the Reconfiguration of Public Authority in the Forest Sector: A Comparative Case Study of Indonesia and Brazil; Chris Höhne et al. .- 9. Evolution of the Mexico's REDD+ Readiness Process Through the Lens of Legitimacy; Jovanka piri .- 10. When REDD+ Fails to Support Democratic Representation: Legitimizing Non-Democratic Practices in the Amazon; Carol M. Burga.