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Title Does REDD+ have a chance? Implications from Pemba, Tanzania
Full text https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n80m50r
Date 2021
Author(s) Andrews, Jeffrey B; Caro, Tim; Ali, Said Juma; Collins, Amy C; Hamadi, Bidawa Bakari; Khamis, Hassan Sellieman; Mzee, Abdi; Ngwali, Assaa Sharif; Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff
Abstract Conservation scientists continue to debate the strengths and weaknesses of REDD+ as an instrument to slow greenhouse gas emissions in the developing world. We propose that general positions on this debate are less helpful than drawing lessons from specific investigations into the features of individual projects that make them successful or not. Here, focusing on a site-specific REDD+ intervention in Pemba, Zanzibar (Tanzania), we examine the circumstances under which REDD+ has a chance of success, teasing out specific features of both REDD+ interventions and the socio-economic and institutional contexts that render REDD+ a potentially valuable complement to community forestry. Additionally, we highlight some unanticipated positive outcomes associated with the design features of REDD+ projects. Our broader goal is to move away from ideologically-driven debate to empirically-based identification of general conditions where REDD+ could work, and to provide policy recommendations.
Subject(s) Climate Action; Carbon payments; community forestry; Pemba; REDD plus; Tanzania; Zanzibar; Environmental Science and Management; Ecology; Zoology
Coverage 725 - 731
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication article
Format application/pdf
Source Oryx, vol 55, iss 5
Rights public
Identifier qt0n80m50r
Repository Berkeley - University of California
Added to C-A: 2023-06-21;10:04:50