Analysing REDD+ with 4Is – institutions and their path-dependencies and ‘stickiness’, actors and their interests, ideas and information – can be useful to understand what hinders or enables change.
Transformational change beyond the forestry sector is required to fully realise the mitigation potential of REDD+, but economic interests and power structures pose challenges to such change.
REDD+ can also serve – and already does to some extent – as a game changer. New economic incentives, new information, growing public concern about climate change, new actors and new policy coalitions all have the potential to generate transformational change.
Authors:
Brockhaus, M.; Angelsen, A.
Subjects:
climate change, mitigation, agricultural policy, environmental policy, deforestation, environmental degradation
Publication type:
Chapter-R, Publication
Year:
2015