Ecology and Society (Sep 2013)
Community Monitoring for REDD+: International Promises and Field Realities
- Finn Danielsen,
- Teis Adrian,
- Søren Brofeldt,
- Meine van Noordwijk,
- Michael K. Poulsen,
- Subekti Rahayu,
- Ervan Rutishauser,
- Ida Theilade,
- Atiek Widayati,
- Ngo The. An,
- Tran Nguyen. Bang,
- Arif Budiman,
- Martin Enghoff,
- Arne E. Jensen,
- Yuyun Kurniawan,
- Qiaohong Li,
- Zhao Mingxu,
- Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt,
- Suoksompong Prixa,
- Vongvisouk Thoumtone,
- Zulfira Warta,
- Neil Burgess
Affiliations
- Finn Danielsen
- Nordisk Fond for Miljø og Udvikling, Copenhagen
- Teis Adrian
- Nordisk Fond for Miljø og Udvikling, Copenhagen
- Søren Brofeldt
- Forest and Landscape of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
- Meine van Noordwijk
- World Agroforestry Centre
- Michael K. Poulsen
- NORDECO
- Subekti Rahayu
- World Agroforestry Centre
- Ervan Rutishauser
- Center for International Forestry Research
- Ida Theilade
- Forest and Landscape of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
- Atiek Widayati
- World Agroforestry Centre
- Ngo The. An
- Hanoi University of Agriculture
- Tran Nguyen. Bang
- Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Hanoi University of Agriculture
- Arif Budiman
- WWF-Indonesia
- Martin Enghoff
- NORDECO
- Arne E. Jensen
- NORDECO
- Yuyun Kurniawan
- WWF-Indonesia
- Qiaohong Li
- Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhao Mingxu
- Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt
- Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Suoksompong Prixa
- National University of Laos
- Vongvisouk Thoumtone
- National University of Laos
- Zulfira Warta
- WWF-Indonesia
- Neil Burgess
- Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05464-180341
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 18,
no. 3
p. 41
Abstract
Will community monitoring assist in delivering just and equitable REDD+? We assessed whether local communities can effectively estimate carbon stocks in some of the world's most carbon rich forests, using simple field protocols, and we reviewed whether community monitoring exists in current REDD+ pilots. We obtained similar results for forest carbon when measured by communities and professional foresters in 289 vegetation plots in Southeast Asia. Most REDD+ monitoring schemes, however, contain no community involvement. To close the gulf between United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change texts on involving communities and field implementation realities, we propose greater embedding of community monitoring within national REDD+ pilot schemes, which we argue will lead to a more just REDD+.
Keywords
- biodiversity
- Climate
- Community and Biodiversity Alliance standard
- forest carbon
- governance
- livelihood
- monitoring
- Payment for Ecosystem Service programs
- REDD+
- Southeast Asia
