Research Handbook on REDD-Plus and International Law

Research Handbook on REDD-Plus and International Law

Author: Christina Voigt

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1783478314

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REDD+ (Reducing Emissions of greenhouse gases from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is an important tool under the UNFCCC for incentivizing developing countries to adopt and scale up climate mitigation actions in the forest sector and for capturing and channeling the financial resources to do so. This Handbook eloquently examines the methodological guidance and emerging governance arrangements for REDD+, analysing how and to what extent it is embedded in the international legal framework. Organized coherently into five parts, contributions from legal experts, international relations scholars, climate change negotiators and activists explore the history and design of REDD+ in the UN climate regime, as well as linkages between REDD+ and other international agreements. The book also considers global governance for REDD+, its financial dimensions including markets and investment and future developments and legal challenges. Detailed analysis from a range of angles illustrates the interplay of international norms and institutions and maps out a legal research agenda for identifying best practice solutions. Shedding light on one of the most vibrant and fast-moving fields in international law, this comprehensive Handbook is essential reading for scholars of international law and international relations, policy makers in the area of climate change, REDD+ and land sector experts and NGOs.


Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights

Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights

Author: Newman, Dwight

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-04-19

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1788115791

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This ground-breaking Research Handbook provides a state-of-the-art discussion of the international law of Indigenous rights and how it has developed in recent decades. Drawing from their extensive knowledge of the topic, leading scholars provide strong general coverage and highlight the challenges and cutting-edge issues arising in international Indigenous rights law.


Research Handbook on Human Rights and the Environment

Research Handbook on Human Rights and the Environment

Author: Anna Grear

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781782544425

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Bringing together leading international scholars in the field, this Research Handbook interrogates, from various angles and positions, the fractious relationship between human rights and the environment and between human rights and environmental law. The Handbook provides researchers and students with a fertile source of reflection and engagement with this most important of contemporary legal relationships. Law's complex role in the mediation of the relationship between humanity and the living order is richly reflected in this timely and authoritative collection.


Research Handbook on International Law and Peace

Research Handbook on International Law and Peace

Author: Cecilia M. Bailliet

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 1788117476

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Peace is an elusive concept, especially within the field of international law, varying according to historical era and between contextual applications within different cultures, institutions, societies, and academic traditions. This Research Handbook responds to the gap created by the neglect of peace in international law scholarship. Explaining the normative evolution of peace from the principles of peaceful co-existence to the UN declaration on the right to peace, this Research Handbook calls for the fortification of international institutions to facilitate the pursuit of sustainable peace as a public good.


The Protection of Indigenous Peoples and Reduction of Forest Carbon Emissions

The Protection of Indigenous Peoples and Reduction of Forest Carbon Emissions

Author: Handa Abidin

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9004298630

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In The Protection of Indigenous Peoples and Reduction of Forest Carbon Emissions, Handa Abidin identifies three main approaches that can be used by indigenous peoples to protect their rights in the context of REDD-plus. Further, he discusses how the available protection for indigenous peoples in the context of REDD-plus is currently insufficient to quickly address cases where the rights of indigenous peoples have been violated through REDD-plus activities. Abidin recommends the establishment of a committee and a panel on REDD-plus that could convey greater benefits to the context of REDD-plus and indigenous peoples, as well as to wider contexts such as climate change, human rights, and international law.


Research Methods in Environmental Law

Research Methods in Environmental Law

Author: Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2017-11-24

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 1784712574

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This timely Handbook brings innovative, free-thinking and radical approaches to research methods in environmental law. With a comprehensive approach it brings together key concepts such as sustainability, climate change, activism, education and Actor-Network Theory. It considers how the Anthropocene subjects environmental law to critique, and to the needs of the variety of bodies, human and non-human, that require its protection. This much-needed book provides a theoretically informed analysis of methodological approaches in the discipline, such as constitutional analysis, rights-based approaches, spatial/geographical analysis, immersive methodologies and autoethnography, which will aid in the practical critique and re-imagining of Environmental Law.


The Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Indigenous and Forest Communities

The Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Indigenous and Forest Communities

Author: Maureen F. Tehan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1108505880

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The international legal framework for valuing the carbon stored in forests, known as 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation' (REDD+), will have a major impact on indigenous peoples and forest communities. The REDD+ regime contains many assumptions about the identity, tenure and rights of indigenous and local communities who inhabit, use or claim rights to forested lands. The authors bring together expert analysis of public international law, climate change treaties, property law, human rights and indigenous customary land tenure to provide a systemic account of the laws governing forest carbon sequestration and their interaction. Their work covers recent developments in climate change law, including the Agreement from the Conference of the Parties in Paris that came into force in 2016. The Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Indigenous and Forest Communities is a rich and much-needed contribution to contemporary understanding of this topic.


Reconsidering REDD+

Reconsidering REDD+

Author: Julia Dehm

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-06-03

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1108423760

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REDD+ operates to reorganise social relations and to establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South.


The International Law on Climate Change

The International Law on Climate Change

Author: Benoit Mayer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1108419879

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A synthesis of the relevant agreements, customary norms and ongoing discussions on the international law on climate change.


Reconsidering REDD+

Reconsidering REDD+

Author: Julia Dehm

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-06-03

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1108540139

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In Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy, Julia Dehm provides a critical analysis of how the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) scheme operates to reorganise social relations and to establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South, in ways that benefit the interests of some actors while further marginalising others. In accessible prose that draws on interdisciplinary insights, Dehm demonstrates how, through the creation of new legal relations, including property rights and contractual obligations, new forms of transnational authority over forested areas in the Global South are being constituted. This important work should be read by anyone interested in a critical analysis of international climate law and policy that offers insights into questions of political economy, power, and unequal authority.