One important debate regarding Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) in developing countries concerns the manner in which its implementation might affect local and indigenous communities. New ways to implement this mechanism without harming the interests of local communities are emerging. To inform this debate, we conducted a qualitative research synthesis to iden...

provide essential ecosystem services on which many poor people depend. Tropical forests contain the majority of the world's rapidly vanishing indigenous cultures and its peoples living in voluntary isolation [5]. REDD could also slow the loss of biodiversity — important in itself and in its central contribution to ecosystem services [6]. Over half of all species live in tropical forests and are...

Countries at the United Nations Framework on the Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have decided to engage local communities and indigenous groups into the activities for the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of the program to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and increase carbon removals (REDD+). Previous research and projects have shown that communities ...

In the context of REDD+, Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) is one way to manage forest change information. A national carbon and non-carbon database will be used in REDD+ to negotiate compensation schemes with the international community. Much of this data will be collected at the local level, thus a reporting system that can integrate these locally collected data into the national ...

We evaluated habitat features (i.e., substrate particle size, water depth, water velocity) at spawning redds and randomly selected reference locations (where spawning activity was not apparent) to determine importance of these features to rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) spawning habitat use in the Pere Marquette River, Michigan, 1997 to 1999. Rainbow trout selected areas with small gravel, ...

The REDD Programme is predicated on the assumption that developed countries will provide sufficient funds to offset opportunity costs associated with avoiding deforestation. The role of non-market values in indigenous land management may challenge the efficacy of compensation schemes targeted at meeting opportunity costs as calculated in traditional opportunity cost analysis (OCA). Furthermore ...

Financial incentives can both support and undermine social norms compatible with environmental service enhancement. External co-investment e.g. through incentives from Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) and ecocertification needs to synergize with local efforts by understanding local dynamics and conditions for free and prior informed consent. We assessed the perceptions...

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) was introduced by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a mechanism to reverse loss of forests carbon stocks in developing countries. REDD+ operates basis performance-based payments. This article focuses market-based voluntary market (VCM). It assesses viability using indigenous lands Brazilian ...

Abstract. This paper discusses the opportunities and challenges of integrating science technology studies (STS), especially variant based on actor–network theory (ANT), into fields human geography with a critical research tradition. Drawing experiences political ecology empirical carbon markets, it uses example reducing emissions from deforestation forest degradation (REDD+) to show how turn to...