Bringing Local Voices to the Global Negotiation Table: Norm Dissemination and Consensus Building on Tropical Forests and Climate Change

ENERGYO ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria G. Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Global Negotiation

Bringing Local Voices to the Global Negotiation Table: Norm Dissemination and Consensus Building on Tropical Forests and Climate Change

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria G. Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Transnational Advocacy ◽  
Transnational Advocacy Networks ◽  
Advocacy Network ◽  
The Impact

AbstractInitially rejected by the parties to the Kyoto Protocol, efforts to protect tropical forests are now an accepted strategy to mitigate the impact of climate change. Inspired by long-standing demands of Amazonia’s forests peoples, the notion of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has been embraced in global arenas. What accounts for this shift in perceptions about the relation between forests and climate change? Answers lie in the efforts of a transnational advocacy network (TAN) at norm dissemination and consensus-building within Brazil and in the Kyoto Protocol. This study highlights the importance of domestic activism unfolding in democratizing societies to enhance the influence of transnational advocacy networks in norm dissemination and consensus building in global arenas. It enlarges the explanatory power of normative approaches by documenting a case in which the idea and set of values being globally propagated do not emanate from a Western liberal tradition.

Shaping forest safety nets with markets: Adaptation to climate change under changing roles of tropical forests in Congo Basin

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 498-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johnson Nkem ◽  
Fobissie B. Kalame ◽  
Monica Idinoba ◽  
Olufunso A. Somorin ◽  
Ousseynou Ndoye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Congo Basin ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Safety Nets ◽  
Changing Roles

scholarly journals Climate change, allergy and asthma, and the role of tropical forests

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gennaro D’Amato ◽  
Carolina Vitale ◽  
Nelson Rosario ◽  
Herberto Josè Chong Neto ◽  
Deborah Carla Chong-Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Allergy And Asthma

scholarly journals Effects of lianas and Hurricane Wilma on tree damage in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (05) ◽  
pp. 559-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgardo I. Garrido-Pérez ◽  
Juan Manuel Dupuy ◽  
Rafael Durán-García ◽  
Mario Ucan-May ◽  
Stefan A. Schnitzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Secondary Succession ◽  
Forest Age ◽  
Hurricane Wilma ◽  
Tree Damage ◽  
Treefall Gaps ◽  
Feedback Cycle ◽  
Multiple Trees

Climate change may increase the intensity of hurricanes (Emanuel 1987, 2003), and thus the size of disturbance in tropical forests. As a consequence, disturbance-specialist plants, such as lianas, may increase in abundance there (Phillips & Gentry 1994). Putz (1984) hypothesized that lianas create larger treefall gaps by connecting trees together and pulling down multiple trees during storms. This positive-feedback cycle may increase the prevalence of lianas in disturbed tropical forests (Schnitzer & Bongers 2002, Schnitzer & Carson 2001). Alternatively, Putz (1984) proposed that lianas tie and stabilize canopies together, resulting in less disturbance. Forest age may determine the role of lianas during disturbance because liana abundance and composition vary through secondary succession (De Waltet al. 2000, Schnitzeret al. 2000). To test the two hypotheses of Putz (1984), we evaluated the effect of liana cutting between forests of different successional ages on tree damage by hurricane Wilma.

scholarly journals Thermophilization of adult and juvenile tree communities in the northern tropical Andes

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (34) ◽  
pp. 10744-10749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvaro Duque ◽  
Pablo R. Stevenson ◽  
Kenneth J. Feeley
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Tree Mortality ◽  
Tropical Andes ◽  
Tree Species Composition ◽  
Episodic Event ◽  
Adult Trees ◽  
Tree Communities ◽  
Show Evidence

Climate change is expected to cause shifts in the composition of tropical montane forests towards increased relative abundances of species whose ranges were previously centered at lower, hotter elevations. To investigate this process of “thermophilization,” we analyzed patterns of compositional change over the last decade using recensus data from a network of 16 adult and juvenile tree plots in the tropical forests of northern Andes Mountains and adjacent lowlands in northwestern Colombia. Analyses show evidence that tree species composition is strongly linked to temperature and that composition is changing directionally through time, potentially in response to climate change and increasing temperatures. Mean rates of thermophilization [thermal migration rate (TMR), °C⋅y−1] across all censuses were 0.011 °C⋅y−1 (95% confidence interval = 0.002–0.022 °C⋅y−1) for adult trees and 0.027 °C⋅y−1 (95% confidence interval = 0.009–0.050 °C⋅y−1) for juvenile trees. The fact that thermophilization is occurring in both the adult and juvenile trees and at rates consistent with concurrent warming supports the hypothesis that the observed compositional changes are part of a long-term process, such as global warming, and are not a response to any single episodic event. The observed changes in composition were driven primarily by patterns of tree mortality, indicating that the changes in composition are mostly via range retractions, rather than range shifts or expansions. These results all indicate that tropical forests are being strongly affected by climate change and suggest that many species will be at elevated risk for extinction as warming continues.

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