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List of contents
Introduction: Reconsidering REDD+; 1. Background to REDD+; 2. Asserting global authority over the carbon sequestration potential of forests; 3. Actualising authority through public and private law: REDD+ through the lens of property and contract; 4. Responsibility and capacity: recasting north-south difference; 5. Scale, multilevel governance and the disaggregation of property rights in REDD+; 6. REDD+ at the 'local' level: between rights and responsibilisation; 7. Conclusion: Possibilities for climate justice and planetary co-habitation.
About the author
Julia Dehm is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, La Trobe University, Victoria. Her research addresses international climate change law and regulation, transnational carbon markets and the governance of natural resources, as well as the relationship between human rights and economic inequality. She is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin and a Resident Fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. Her work has been widely published in journals such as the Leiden Journal of International Law, Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, and the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.
Summary
Dehm analyzes how the REDD+ scheme operates to reorganise social relations and establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South, benefitting some actors while further marginalising others. This book is for scholars, students, practitioners, and anyone interested in international climate law and natural resource governance.
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'An original and thought-provoking critique of REDD+ that also sheds light on fundamental shortcomings of the climate change regime and of international environmental law and policy more generally. This is the very best kind of critical scholarship, that not only reveals the limitations of current frameworks but also inspires the reader to look past them to possible alternatives.' Karin Mickelson, University of British Columbia
