The Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Indigenous and Forest Communities: International, National and Local Law Perspectives on Redd+

ISBN-13: 9781107424807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 441 str.

Maureen F. Tehan; Lee C. Godden; Margaret A. Young

Opis

Legal frameworks to 'reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation' (REDD+) are analysed to focus on protections and benefits for indigenous peoples and forest communities.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. REDD+ as international legal regime; 3. REDD+'s broader international legal context; 4. REDD+, identity law and 'free, prior and informed consent'; 5. REDD+, tenure and indigenous property claims; 6. Benefit-sharing in the REDD+ regime: linking rights and equitable outcomes; 7. Malaysia and the UN-REDD programme-exploring possibilities for tenure pluralism in forest governance; 8. REDD+ in Melanesia: Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu; 9. Indigenous land tenures and carbon mitigation schemes: lessons from Northern Australia; 10. Interacting regimes and experimentalism; 11. Conclusion.