Written by a diverse group of anthropologists, geographers, environmental researchers, and policy-makers, The Carbon Fix offers a cautionary tale of the contemporary practice of carbon sequestration, in which developed countries and global commercial interests pay less-developed countries to sequester carbon in return for the right to trade carbon emissions on the market. The authors argue that the obsession with carbon sequestration has displaced many of the varied social and ecological values that have otherwise guided conservation and environmental policy, with deleterious...

Given the growing urgency to develop global responses to a changing climate, The Carbon Fix examines the social and equity dimensions of putting the world s forests and, necessarily, the rural people who manage and depend on them at the center of climate policy efforts such as REDD+, intended to slow global warming. The book assesses the implications of international policy approaches that focus on forests as carbon and especially, forest carbon offsets, for rights, justice, and climate governance.

Contributions from leading anthropologists and...