Fair ways to share benefits from community forests? How commodification is associated with reduced preference for equality and poverty alleviation
This research is concerned with the trend towards commodification of forestry, in the context of community forest governance for sustainable development in the tropics. In these contexts, commodification takes different forms, including sales of certified timbers and sales of carbon credits. In addi...
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| author | Adrian Martin Bereket Kebede Nicole Gross-Camp Jun He Mirna Inturias Iokiñe Rodríguez |
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| description | This research is concerned with the trend towards commodification of forestry, in the context of community forest governance for sustainable development in the tropics. In these contexts, commodification takes different forms, including sales of certified timbers and sales of carbon credits. In addition to the general aim to enhance income, these market-based forestry interventions typically aim to align with sustainable development agendas, including (a) safeguarding ecological integrity and (b) promoting poverty alleviation. Our concern here is that the process of forest commodification might lead to a shift in local norms of benefit-sharing, in ways that can hinder these key components of sustainable development goals. We report the results of a survey ( N = 519) conducted across sites in Bolivia, China and Tanzania that shows that switching from non-monetary to monetary benefits is associated with changes in preferences for distributional fairness in ways that may be detrimental to the poor. In particular, we show that forest commodification is associated with a lower likelihood of selecting pro-poor or egalitarian approaches to benefit sharing and higher likelihood of selecting to distribute benefits in a way that rewards individual contributions or compensates losses. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d6ace75774b64391930151d83af815902023-08-09T14:42:07ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262019-01-0114606400210.1088/1748-9326/ab114fFair ways to share benefits from community forests? How commodification is associated with reduced preference for equality and poverty alleviationAdrian Martin0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2916-7712Bereket Kebede1Nicole Gross-Camp2Jun He3Mirna Inturias4Iokiñe Rodríguez5University of East Anglia , Norwich, United KingdomUniversity of East Anglia , Norwich, United KingdomAllegheny College, Meadville, PA, United States of AmericaYunnan University , Kunming, People’s Republic of ChinaNUR University , Santa Cruz, BoliviaUniversity of East Anglia , Norwich, United KingdomThis research is concerned with the trend towards commodification of forestry, in the context of community forest governance for sustainable development in the tropics. In these contexts, commodification takes different forms, including sales of certified timbers and sales of carbon credits. In addition to the general aim to enhance income, these market-based forestry interventions typically aim to align with sustainable development agendas, including (a) safeguarding ecological integrity and (b) promoting poverty alleviation. Our concern here is that the process of forest commodification might lead to a shift in local norms of benefit-sharing, in ways that can hinder these key components of sustainable development goals. We report the results of a survey ( N = 519) conducted across sites in Bolivia, China and Tanzania that shows that switching from non-monetary to monetary benefits is associated with changes in preferences for distributional fairness in ways that may be detrimental to the poor. In particular, we show that forest commodification is associated with a lower likelihood of selecting pro-poor or egalitarian approaches to benefit sharing and higher likelihood of selecting to distribute benefits in a way that rewards individual contributions or compensates losses.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab114fpayments for ecosystem servicesenvironmental justicecommunity forestscommodificationbenefit sharingsustainable development goals |
| spellingShingle | Adrian Martin Bereket Kebede Nicole Gross-Camp Jun He Mirna Inturias Iokiñe Rodríguez Fair ways to share benefits from community forests? How commodification is associated with reduced preference for equality and poverty alleviation Environmental Research Letters payments for ecosystem services environmental justice community forests commodification benefit sharing sustainable development goals |
| title | Fair ways to share benefits from community forests? How commodification is associated with reduced preference for equality and poverty alleviation |
| title_full | Fair ways to share benefits from community forests? How commodification is associated with reduced preference for equality and poverty alleviation |
| title_fullStr | Fair ways to share benefits from community forests? How commodification is associated with reduced preference for equality and poverty alleviation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fair ways to share benefits from community forests? How commodification is associated with reduced preference for equality and poverty alleviation |
| title_short | Fair ways to share benefits from community forests? How commodification is associated with reduced preference for equality and poverty alleviation |
| title_sort | fair ways to share benefits from community forests how commodification is associated with reduced preference for equality and poverty alleviation |
| topic | payments for ecosystem services environmental justice community forests commodification benefit sharing sustainable development goals |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab114f |
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