"Forests of Refuge questions the effectiveness of market-based policies aimed at governing forests in the interest of mitigating climate change. Yolanda Ariadne Collins interrogates the biggest and most ambitious global plan to incentivize people away from deforesting activities, that of the United Nations endorsed Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD ) initiative. Forests of Refuge explores REDD in Guyana and neighboring Suriname, two highly forested countries in the Amazonian Guiana Shield ...
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"Forests of Refuge questions the effectiveness of market-based policies aimed at governing forests in the interest of mitigating climate change. Yolanda Ariadne Collins interrogates the biggest and most ambitious global plan to incentivize people away from deforesting activities, that of the United Nations endorsed Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD ) initiative. Forests of Refuge explores REDD in Guyana and neighboring Suriname, two highly forested countries in the Amazonian Guiana Shield with low deforestation rates where conservation efforts would be expected to have a relatively easy path. Yet, REDD implementation there has been fraught with challenges. Adopting a multi-sited ethnographic approach, Forest of Refuge takes readers into the halls of policy making, conservation development organizations, and to forest dependent communities most affected by environmental policies and exploitative colonial histories. This book situates these challenges in the inattentiveness of global environmental policies to roughly five hundred years of colonial histories that positioned the forests as places of refuge and resistance. It advocates that the fruits of these oppressive histories be reckoned with through processes of decolonization"--
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