Carbon stock indicators
Reductionist Assessments and Contentious Policies on Land Use
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2157404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arnim Scheidel (0000-0001-9764-685X, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), The Hague, Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 913-934 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150.2018.1428952 |
| OpenAlex | W2794354925 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 64 |
Indicators of carbon storage in forests and other land uses have gained much prominence to evaluate and endorse land-based climate change mitigation policies. The outcomes of such assessments can have direct livelihood implications for dwellers living at the forest-agriculture frontier, such as shifting cultivators or subsistence farmers. This contribution critically discusses the methodological relevance of carbon stock indicators to assess long-term emission dynamics of land uses, and furthermore addresses the 'politics of measurement' that can be involved in policy practice. From a complex socio-ecological systems perspective, the paper argues that carbon stock indicators provide necessary but not sufficient information to endorse land use policies with mitigation aims. While they may indicate one-off sequestration gains through vegetation and land-use change, they cannot account for permanent hidden emissions that emerge as part of the broader agrarian transitions that accompany land-use change. Over the long term, this may render related mitigation interventions ineffective, if not counterproductive. Furthermore, carbon stock estimates for future land-use scenarios sometimes draw on biased assumptions, or are constructed within histories of discrimination, through which they may further marginalize subaltern groups such as shifting cultivators. A paradigm shift is needed that includes more integrative assessment approaches
Agriculture · Climate change · Climate change mitigation · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Land use · Land use, land-use change and forestry · Livelihood · Natural resource economics · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Stock (firearms · Subsistence agriculture · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Energy and Environment Impacts · Ecology
Uneven geographies of climate change mitigation
Carbon emissions from land acquisitions in Laos
Forest plantations and climate change discourses
Discursive and biophysical dimensions of land sparing policies in Laos
The social and ecological costs of reforestation. Territorialization and industrialization of land use accompany forest transitions in Southeast Asia
Changes in energy and livestock systems largely explain the forest transition in Austria (1830–1910)
Grey areas in green grabbing
Toward sustainable and just forest recovery
Movements shaping climate futures
Hidden emissions of forest transitions
The global climate of land politics
Contestations in the emerging soil-based carbon economy
Global land deals
Proyectos de muerte and proyectos de vida
A Forest Transition
From Exclusivity to Exclusion
Carbon Footprint of Nations
Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia
Food Production and the Energy Crisis
Managing Forests for Climate Change Mitigation
Industrialization, Fossil Fuels, and the Transformation of Land Use
Mitigating GHG Emissions in the Humid Tropics
Indigenous livelihoods, slash-and-burn agriculture, and carbon stocks in Eastern Panama
Trends in shifting cultivation and the Redd mechanism
Trees, forests and water
Swidden, rubber and carbon
Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers
How a socio-ecological metabolism approach can help to advance our understanding of changes in land-use intensity
Carbon colonialism and the new land grab
The puzzle of East and Southeast Asia's persistent smallholder
Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty
Liberating the City
The new corporate enclosures
Diet, trade and land use
Climate change mitigation, land grabbing and conflict
Inverting the moral economy
Ecological economics
Tactics of land capture through claims of poverty reduction in Cambodia
The new rurality
Carbon offsets
Reflections on Latin American Rural Studies in the Neoliberal Globalization Period
Seeing Like a State
The political ecology of cross-sectoral cumulative impacts
The political economy of 'flex trees
The politics of evidence
Messy hectares
Green Grabbing
The Eroi of agriculture and its use by the Via Campesina
Environmental Consequences of the Demise in Swidden Cultivation in Southeast Asia
Swidden Change in Southeast Asia
Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia
Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia
An Assessment of Trends in the Extent of Swidden in Southeast Asia
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |