Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa

This book examines the effectiveness of forest carbon projects in Africa, looking at efforts to conserve forest carbon stocks, reduce carbon emissions and offset emissions through trade in carbon credits. Drawing on a diverse range of original international case studies, the book analyses forest carbon projects in the context of the wider commoditisation of nature. It explores how these projects interact with the particular histories of forest landscapes and impact on local forest users. By examining these cases in a comparative framework, the book provides a rich and compelling account of how and why carbon conflicts are emerging, and how they might be avoided in future.

List of contents

1. Political Ecologies of Carbon in Africa 2. Forest Carbon Projects and Policies in Africa 3. Climate Emergency, Carbon Capture and Coercive Conservation on Mt. Kilimanjaro 4.Carbon in Africa’s Agricultural Landscapes A Kenyan Case 5. ‘Zones of Awkward Engagement’ in Ugandan Carbon Forestry 6. Implementing REDD+: Evidence from Kenya 7. Carbon Projects and Communities: Dynamic Encounters in Zambia 8. Struggles over Carbon in the Zambezi Valley: The Case of Kariba REDD in Hurungwe, Zimbabwe 9. Farming Carbon in Ghana’s Transition Zone: Rhetoric versus Reality 10. Old Reserve, New Carbon Interests: The Case of the Western Area Peninsula Forest, Sierra Leone

About the author

Melissa Leach is Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and co-directs the ESRC STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Scoones Leach
• Assisted by: Melissa Leach (Editor), Leach Melissa (Editor), Ian Scoones (Editor), Scoones Ian (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2015
• EAN: 9781138824829
• ISBN: 978-1-138-82482-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Pathways to Sustainability
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Biodiversity, environmental science, engineering & technology, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Development Studies, Regional Geography, Environmental science, engineering and technology