Shades of green and Redd

Local and global contestations over the value of forest versus plantation development on the Indonesian forest frontier

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ID9744842
AutoresMichael Eilenberg (0000-0003-0051-7424, Department of anthropology Aarhus University Moesgaard Alle 20 DK‐8270 Hojbjerg Denmark, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume56
Fascículo1
Páginas48-61
Data de publicação2015-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAsia Pacific Viewpoint (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1360-7456 • E-ISSN: 1467-8373
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/apv.12084
OpenAlexW2101480099
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas34
Referências citadas32

In a time of increasing land enclosures sparked by large‐scale environmental initiatives and agricultural expansion, this paper examines local and global contestations over the value of forest on an Indonesian forest frontier. Engaging with recent debates on carbon forestry, the paper problematises the emerging initiatives of ‘ R educing E missions from D eforestation and Forest D egradation’ known as REDD + in the province of W est K alimantan, I ndonesia. The paper argues that the general rush to implement REDD + without intimate knowledge of the political landscape of resource struggle is in danger of generating new enclosures of land that may be easily appropriated by local elites, thus excluding less fortunate sections of local society. The paper shows how divergent interpretations of REDD + are triggering land disputes, and how powerful actors readily appropriate REDD + discourses as a tool to support divergent claims of land ownership. Government and villagers, through overlapping and contradictory engagements, negotiate REDD + initiatives with global environmental actors and private plantation companies. The paper highlights the implications of these local realities for the successes of REDD +. The K alimantan case highlights some of the dilemmas of carbon mitigation initiatives experienced in frontier regions throughout S outheast A sia, places that have become prime battlefronts of large‐scale climate change initiatives and agrarian expansion

Archaeology · Economics · Frontier · Geography · Indonesian · Statistics · Value (mathematics · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Mathematics · Oil Palm Production and Sustainability · Philosophy · Forestry