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Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime
Balancing agendas for climate mitigation and environmental justice continues to be one of the key challenges in climate change governance mechanisms, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+). In this paper we apply the three-dimensional environmental justice framework as...
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author | Ramcilovic-Suominen, Sabaheta Carodenuto, Sophia McDermott, Constance Hiedanpää, Juha |
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description | Balancing agendas for climate mitigation and environmental justice continues to be one of the key challenges in climate change governance mechanisms, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+). In this paper we apply the three-dimensional environmental justice framework as a lens to examine the REDD+ process in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos) and the REDD+ social safeguards. We focus particularly on challenges to justice faced by marginalized communities living in forest frontier areas under an authoritarian regime. Drawing on policy analysis and open-ended interviews across different policy levels, we explore procedural, distributional, and recognitional justice across the REDD+ policy levels in Laos. We find that REDD+ social safeguards have been applied by both donors and state actors in ways that facilitate external control. We underscore how authoritarian regime control over civil society and ethnic minority groups thwarts justice. We also highlight how this political culture and lack of inclusiveness are used by donors and project managers to implement their projects with little political debate. Further obstacles to justice relate to limitations inherent in the REDD+ instrument, including tight schedules for dealing with highly sensitive socio-political issues under social safeguards. These findings echo other research but go further in questioning the adequacy of safeguards to promote justice under a nationally driven REDD+. We highlight the importance of recognition and political context, including aspects such as power relations, self-determination and self-governance of traditional or customary structures, in shaping justice outcomes. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13280-021-01618-7. |
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spelling | pubmed-85639142021-11-15 Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime Ramcilovic-Suominen, Sabaheta Carodenuto, Sophia McDermott, Constance Hiedanpää, Juha Ambio Global Forest Environmental Frontiers Balancing agendas for climate mitigation and environmental justice continues to be one of the key challenges in climate change governance mechanisms, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+). In this paper we apply the three-dimensional environmental justice framework as a lens to examine the REDD+ process in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos) and the REDD+ social safeguards. We focus particularly on challenges to justice faced by marginalized communities living in forest frontier areas under an authoritarian regime. Drawing on policy analysis and open-ended interviews across different policy levels, we explore procedural, distributional, and recognitional justice across the REDD+ policy levels in Laos. We find that REDD+ social safeguards have been applied by both donors and state actors in ways that facilitate external control. We underscore how authoritarian regime control over civil society and ethnic minority groups thwarts justice. We also highlight how this political culture and lack of inclusiveness are used by donors and project managers to implement their projects with little political debate. Further obstacles to justice relate to limitations inherent in the REDD+ instrument, including tight schedules for dealing with highly sensitive socio-political issues under social safeguards. These findings echo other research but go further in questioning the adequacy of safeguards to promote justice under a nationally driven REDD+. We highlight the importance of recognition and political context, including aspects such as power relations, self-determination and self-governance of traditional or customary structures, in shaping justice outcomes. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13280-021-01618-7. Springer Netherlands 2021-09-14 2021-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8563914/ /pubmed/34519956 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01618-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Global Forest Environmental Frontiers Ramcilovic-Suominen, Sabaheta Carodenuto, Sophia McDermott, Constance Hiedanpää, Juha Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime |
title | Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime |
title_full | Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime |
title_fullStr | Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime |
title_full_unstemmed | Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime |
title_short | Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime |
title_sort | environmental justice and redd+ safeguards in laos: lessons from an authoritarian political regime |
topic | Global Forest Environmental Frontiers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8563914/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34519956 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01618-7 |
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