scholarly journals Can the subaltern protect forests? REDD+ compliance, depoliticization and indigenous subjectivities

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 419-435
Author(s):  
Franziska Müller
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Global Carbon

REDD+ regimes are accompanied by capacity-building and educational practices, which play an important role in REDD+ governance. These practices address subaltern local and indigenous actors, seek their compliance and thereby contribute to the stabilization of otherwise all-too-fragile global carbon governance systems. In this article I analyze the governing effects of such practices by drawing on Robert Fletcher's concept of "multiple environmentalities" and Tania Murray Li's "analytic of assemblage." Empirically I focus on educational materials that have been designed for REDD+ projects in cooperation with one of the world's largest REDD+ funds, Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative. I identify several strategies that aim at aligning diverse actors, seek to de- or re-politicize REDD+ concepts, authorize knowledge, and, most significantly, address local actors as responsible ecological stewards, who contribute to stabilizing REDD+ regimes on the ground. In total, these strategies promote programmatic subjectivities among indigenous 'stakeholders' and contribute to a new, 'glocal' understanding of nature-society relations.Keywords: global environmental governance, REDD+, governmentality, environmentality, capacity-building

The Scope of Action for Local Climate Policy: The Case of Norway

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Aall ◽  
Kyrre Groven ◽  
Gard Lindseth
Keyword(s):  
Climate Policy ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Municipal Policy ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
International Climate ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Policy Setting

One of the key features of the post-Rio era has been how global environmental governance is mediated between local, national and global levels of government. In this article, we draw on experiences from local climate policy planning in Norway in order to discuss the ways in which climate change enters into a municipal policy setting. Based on the Norwegian case, supplemented with knowledge gained from an international literature review, we present a typology of six different categories of local climate policy. We highlight that local actors can both play the role as a structure for the implementation of national or international climate objectives, as well as that of being policy actors taking independent policy initiatives. We emphasize how the relationship between national and local authorities is a crucial factor if climate policy as a specific local responsibility should be further strengthened.

scholarly journals COMMUNITY PROTOCOLS AS TOOLS FOR RESISTING EXCLUSION IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Aguilar Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Access And Benefit Sharing ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
Different Parts

ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the rise of the community protocol approach under the access and benefit-sharing (ABS) transnational governance arena, to understand how local initiatives translate a global environmental regulation. This paper contributes to the literature on transnational governance by showing how this is constituted by a series of translation processes and each time a concept is introduced in a transnational arena and then translated by a community or organization, it gains new forms and uses depending on the interests and experiences of the actors involved. However, the same concept used for the same goal by communities in different parts of the world led to different concrete outcomes, which points to the idea that the outcomes in translation processes are not only ongoing but also unpredictable. In addition, the cases illustrate that in the process of actively translating a global regulation, the local actors themselves also change. Finally, the emergent findings show how community protocols were translated to become translocal tools to resist exclusion in environmental governance through two main mechanisms: connecting goals and practices and (re)connecting social networks.

Movements, Networks, Hierarchies: A Gender Perspective on Global Environmental Governance

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Bretherton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Transnational Mobilization ◽  
Environmentally Sound

Environmental governance may be distinguished from environmental management by the implication that, in the former, some form of participatory process is involved. Here, the focus is upon the potential for women's movements and networks to influence the principles and practices of global environmental governance (GEG). It is contended that, in principle, women are uniquely placed to oppose the dominant norms informing GEG; and that women's participation would, in consequence, be crucial to the achievement of equitable and environmentally sound forms of governance. In practice, however, a number of factors combine to create divisions between women, and hence to impede transnational mobilization by women around environmental issues. This article examines these issues.

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