Forest Islands and Castaway Communities: REDD+ and Forest Restoration in Prey Lang Forest
Climate Change policies are playing an ever-increasing role in global development strategies and their implementation gives rise to often-unforeseen social conflicts and environmental degradations. A landscape approach to analyzing forest-based Climate Change Mitigation policies (CCM) and land grabs...
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| description | Climate Change policies are playing an ever-increasing role in global development strategies and their implementation gives rise to often-unforeseen social conflicts and environmental degradations. A landscape approach to analyzing forest-based Climate Change Mitigation policies (CCM) and land grabs in the Prey Lang Forest landscape, Cambodia revealed two Korea-Cambodia partnership projects designed to increase forest cover that are juxtaposed in this paper. Case study data revealed a REDD+ project with little negative impact or social conflict in the project area and an Afforestation/Reforestation (A/R) project that created both social and ecological conflicts. The study concludes that forest-based CCM policies can reduce conflict through efforts at minimal transformation of local livelihoods, maximal attention to the tenure rights, responsibilities, and authority of citizens, and by improving, not degrading, the project landscapes. The paper presents the circumstances under which these guidelines are sidestepped by the A/R project, and importantly reveals that dramatic forest and livelihood transformation had already affected the community and environment in the REDD+ project site. There are deep contradictions at the heart of climate change policies toward which attention must be given, lest we leave our future generations with nothing but forest islands and castaway communities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1e14a3dc826a4f4d8b9b7e8cf947026b2022-12-22T02:48:22ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072017-02-01824710.3390/f8020047f8020047Forest Islands and Castaway Communities: REDD+ and Forest Restoration in Prey Lang ForestCourtney Work0International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, 2502 LT The Hague, NetherlandsClimate Change policies are playing an ever-increasing role in global development strategies and their implementation gives rise to often-unforeseen social conflicts and environmental degradations. A landscape approach to analyzing forest-based Climate Change Mitigation policies (CCM) and land grabs in the Prey Lang Forest landscape, Cambodia revealed two Korea-Cambodia partnership projects designed to increase forest cover that are juxtaposed in this paper. Case study data revealed a REDD+ project with little negative impact or social conflict in the project area and an Afforestation/Reforestation (A/R) project that created both social and ecological conflicts. The study concludes that forest-based CCM policies can reduce conflict through efforts at minimal transformation of local livelihoods, maximal attention to the tenure rights, responsibilities, and authority of citizens, and by improving, not degrading, the project landscapes. The paper presents the circumstances under which these guidelines are sidestepped by the A/R project, and importantly reveals that dramatic forest and livelihood transformation had already affected the community and environment in the REDD+ project site. There are deep contradictions at the heart of climate change policies toward which attention must be given, lest we leave our future generations with nothing but forest islands and castaway communities.http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/8/2/47Cambodiaclimate changelandscapeREDD+ |
| spellingShingle | Courtney Work Forest Islands and Castaway Communities: REDD+ and Forest Restoration in Prey Lang Forest Forests Cambodia climate change landscape REDD+ |
| title | Forest Islands and Castaway Communities: REDD+ and Forest Restoration in Prey Lang Forest |
| title_full | Forest Islands and Castaway Communities: REDD+ and Forest Restoration in Prey Lang Forest |
| title_fullStr | Forest Islands and Castaway Communities: REDD+ and Forest Restoration in Prey Lang Forest |
| title_full_unstemmed | Forest Islands and Castaway Communities: REDD+ and Forest Restoration in Prey Lang Forest |
| title_short | Forest Islands and Castaway Communities: REDD+ and Forest Restoration in Prey Lang Forest |
| title_sort | forest islands and castaway communities redd and forest restoration in prey lang forest |
| topic | Cambodia climate change landscape REDD+ |
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