Constance Mcdermott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3707754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance Mcdermott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdermott |
| SIGNATURE | MCDERMOTT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Adaptation sovereignty: Situated responses to environmental change
This paper investigates Indigenous illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) and its motivations in Madre de Dios, Peru, through the lens of resource sovereignty and adaptation. It proposes and applies a new framework of adaptation sovereignty to examine responses to socio-environmental change — in this case, change caused by ASGM on Indigenous territories conducted by external, non-Indigenous miners. This study addresses a critical ga…
Unpacking the politics of Nature-based Solutions governance: Making space for transformative change
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have gained global attention for their transformative potential to simultaneously address biodiversity loss, climate change, and human well-being. However, there are concerns that dominant framings reinforce vested interests, marginalise alternative perspectives, and lead to persistent patterns of inequality and injustice. While participatory governance of NbS is widely acclaimed to support more equitable and ‘just’ o…
Articulating FPIC through transnational sustainability standards: A comparative analysis of Forest Stewardship Council’s standard development processes in Canada, Russia and Sweden
Environmental justice and Redd+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime
Balancing agendas for climate mitigation and environmental justice continues to be one of the key challenges in climate change governance mechanisms, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+). In this paper we apply the three-dimensional environmental justice framework as a lens to examine the REDD+ process in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos) and the REDD+ social safeguards. We focus particularly on challeng…
Climate-smart cocoa governance risks entrenching old hegemonies in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana: A multiple environmentality analysis
Tenure reform for better forestry: An unfinished policy agenda
The global community is currently grappling with multiple and overlapping social and environmental threats. These include the climate emergency, COVID-19 and the threat of widespread hunger, and the accelerating loss of biodiversity. All of these threats point to an urgent need to restore and sustainably manage land and forests. Studies are pointing to the critical role of tenure reform, and in particular strengthening collective forest tenure, a…
Forest tenure and the Sustainable Development Goals – A critical view
Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) form an overarching framework to guide development at all scales from local to global. They are intended to holistically address sustainability across its economic, ecological and social dimensions. A core tenant of this holistic approach is that all dimensions of sustainability are interlinked, such that changes in one dimension can have pivotal effects on others. This paper focuses on …
Imposing legality: Hegemony and resistance under the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade (FLEGT) initiative
Timber legality trade restrictions and verification are a bundle of contemporary mechanisms triggered by global concerns about forest degradation and deforestation. The European Union Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade initiative is a significant effort to not only screen out illegal timber and wood products from the EU, but also support trading partner countries to improve their legality definitions and verification processes. But by u…
Examining equity in Ghana's national Redd+ process
Are Redd+ community forest projects following the principles for collective action, as proposed by Ostrom
Forested countries in the global south that have agreed to engage in REDD+, a policy mechanism for addressing climate change, are receiving support to improve laws, policies, systems and structures. As a mechanism initiated at the global level and seeking to use forests to address a global commons crisis (atmospheric carbon concentration), understanding how REDD+ translates into implementation at the local level is essential. Therefore, using a s…
Beyond Carbon: Enabling Justice and Equity in Redd+ Across Levels of Governance
The global nature of climate change and the globalization of environmental governance have highlighted the challenges of enabling justice and equity across diverse societies and multiple levels of governance. At the center of these challenges are ongoing debates over the distribution of rights and responsibilities for environmental and social impacts -e.g., to what degree are developed countries responsible for climate disasters and developing co…
Equity and forest certification — A case study in Brazil
Can Non‐state Governance ‘Ratchet Up’ Global Environmental Standards? Lessons from the Forest Sector
The failure of the worlds’ governments to agree on a binding global forest convention at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit led many leading environmental groups to advance eco‐labelling ‘forest certification’ programmes that, they hoped, would achieve greater success in implementing sustainable forest management. Eschewing traditional State‐centered authority, supporters of this ‘non‐State market driven’ (NSMD) approach turn to customers of wood products…
Beyond Carbon: Enabling Justice and Equity in Redd+ Across Levels of Governance
The global nature of climate change and the globalization of environmental governance have highlighted the challenges of enabling justice and equity across diverse societies and multiple levels of governance. At the center of these challenges are ongoing debates over the distribution of rights and responsibilities for environmental and social impacts -e.g., to what degree are developed countries responsible for climate disasters and developing co…
Climate-smart cocoa governance risks entrenching old hegemonies in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana: A multiple environmentality analysis
Tenure reform for better forestry: An unfinished policy agenda
The global community is currently grappling with multiple and overlapping social and environmental threats. These include the climate emergency, COVID-19 and the threat of widespread hunger, and the accelerating loss of biodiversity. All of these threats point to an urgent need to restore and sustainably manage land and forests. Studies are pointing to the critical role of tenure reform, and in particular strengthening collective forest tenure, a…
Equity and forest certification — A case study in Brazil
Examining equity in Ghana's national Redd+ process
Unpacking the politics of Nature-based Solutions governance: Making space for transformative change
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have gained global attention for their transformative potential to simultaneously address biodiversity loss, climate change, and human well-being. However, there are concerns that dominant framings reinforce vested interests, marginalise alternative perspectives, and lead to persistent patterns of inequality and injustice. While participatory governance of NbS is widely acclaimed to support more equitable and ‘just’ o…
Forest tenure and the Sustainable Development Goals – A critical view
Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) form an overarching framework to guide development at all scales from local to global. They are intended to holistically address sustainability across its economic, ecological and social dimensions. A core tenant of this holistic approach is that all dimensions of sustainability are interlinked, such that changes in one dimension can have pivotal effects on others. This paper focuses on …
Environmental justice and Redd+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime
Balancing agendas for climate mitigation and environmental justice continues to be one of the key challenges in climate change governance mechanisms, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+). In this paper we apply the three-dimensional environmental justice framework as a lens to examine the REDD+ process in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos) and the REDD+ social safeguards. We focus particularly on challeng…
Can Non‐state Governance ‘Ratchet Up’ Global Environmental Standards? Lessons from the Forest Sector
The failure of the worlds’ governments to agree on a binding global forest convention at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit led many leading environmental groups to advance eco‐labelling ‘forest certification’ programmes that, they hoped, would achieve greater success in implementing sustainable forest management. Eschewing traditional State‐centered authority, supporters of this ‘non‐State market driven’ (NSMD) approach turn to customers of wood products…
Equity and forest certification — A case study in Brazil
Beyond Carbon: Enabling Justice and Equity in Redd+ Across Levels of Governance
The global nature of climate change and the globalization of environmental governance have highlighted the challenges of enabling justice and equity across diverse societies and multiple levels of governance. At the center of these challenges are ongoing debates over the distribution of rights and responsibilities for environmental and social impacts -e.g., to what degree are developed countries responsible for climate disasters and developing co…
Are Redd+ community forest projects following the principles for collective action, as proposed by Ostrom
Forested countries in the global south that have agreed to engage in REDD+, a policy mechanism for addressing climate change, are receiving support to improve laws, policies, systems and structures. As a mechanism initiated at the global level and seeking to use forests to address a global commons crisis (atmospheric carbon concentration), understanding how REDD+ translates into implementation at the local level is essential. Therefore, using a s…
Examining equity in Ghana's national Redd+ process
Tenure reform for better forestry: An unfinished policy agenda
The global community is currently grappling with multiple and overlapping social and environmental threats. These include the climate emergency, COVID-19 and the threat of widespread hunger, and the accelerating loss of biodiversity. All of these threats point to an urgent need to restore and sustainably manage land and forests. Studies are pointing to the critical role of tenure reform, and in particular strengthening collective forest tenure, a…
Forest tenure and the Sustainable Development Goals – A critical view
Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) form an overarching framework to guide development at all scales from local to global. They are intended to holistically address sustainability across its economic, ecological and social dimensions. A core tenant of this holistic approach is that all dimensions of sustainability are interlinked, such that changes in one dimension can have pivotal effects on others. This paper focuses on …
Imposing legality: Hegemony and resistance under the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade (FLEGT) initiative
Timber legality trade restrictions and verification are a bundle of contemporary mechanisms triggered by global concerns about forest degradation and deforestation. The European Union Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade initiative is a significant effort to not only screen out illegal timber and wood products from the EU, but also support trading partner countries to improve their legality definitions and verification processes. But by u…
Articulating FPIC through transnational sustainability standards: A comparative analysis of Forest Stewardship Council’s standard development processes in Canada, Russia and Sweden
Environmental justice and Redd+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime
Balancing agendas for climate mitigation and environmental justice continues to be one of the key challenges in climate change governance mechanisms, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+). In this paper we apply the three-dimensional environmental justice framework as a lens to examine the REDD+ process in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos) and the REDD+ social safeguards. We focus particularly on challeng…
Climate-smart cocoa governance risks entrenching old hegemonies in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana: A multiple environmentality analysis
Unpacking the politics of Nature-based Solutions governance: Making space for transformative change
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have gained global attention for their transformative potential to simultaneously address biodiversity loss, climate change, and human well-being. However, there are concerns that dominant framings reinforce vested interests, marginalise alternative perspectives, and lead to persistent patterns of inequality and injustice. While participatory governance of NbS is widely acclaimed to support more equitable and ‘just’ o…
Adaptation sovereignty: Situated responses to environmental change
This paper investigates Indigenous illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) and its motivations in Madre de Dios, Peru, through the lens of resource sovereignty and adaptation. It proposes and applies a new framework of adaptation sovereignty to examine responses to socio-environmental change — in this case, change caused by ASGM on Indigenous territories conducted by external, non-Indigenous miners. This study addresses a critical ga…
Political science (12 works) · Business (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 works) · Corporate governance (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Forest Management and Policy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (5 works)