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Improving Sustainability of the Environment in a Changing Climate: Can REDD+ Rise to the Challenge?

Improving Sustainability of the Environment in a Changing Climate: Can REDD+ Rise to the Challenge?

Albert Arhin
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781466688148|ISBN10: 1466688149|EISBN13: 9781466688155
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8814-8.ch016
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Arhin, Albert. "Improving Sustainability of the Environment in a Changing Climate: Can REDD+ Rise to the Challenge?." Handbook of Research on Climate Change Impact on Health and Environmental Sustainability, edited by Soumyananda Dinda, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 327-346. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8814-8.ch016

APA

Arhin, A. (2016). Improving Sustainability of the Environment in a Changing Climate: Can REDD+ Rise to the Challenge?. In S. Dinda (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Climate Change Impact on Health and Environmental Sustainability (pp. 327-346). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8814-8.ch016

Chicago

Arhin, Albert. "Improving Sustainability of the Environment in a Changing Climate: Can REDD+ Rise to the Challenge?." In Handbook of Research on Climate Change Impact on Health and Environmental Sustainability, edited by Soumyananda Dinda, 327-346. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8814-8.ch016

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Abstract

The mechanism of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation plus conservation, sustainable forest management and enhancement of carbon stocks is emerging as one of the current efforts and actions being developed by the international climate change community to mitigate climate change. This chapter highlights the potentials as well as the challenges of this mechanism to reduce forest loss and improve the health and sustainability of the environment. Main potentials include its resolve to make trees worth more standing than cut, the transfer of funds to support conservation efforts and a focus on delivering social benefits. The main challenges include the less attention on unclear tenure and benefit-sharing framework; weak institutions and the complex historical, political and structural interests which have allowed powerful groups to expropriate the forest resources and trade-offs that may arise during implementation. It then outlines four broad areas where researchers can make contributions in national and local level policy-making and interventions related to REDD+.

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