Community Forest Monitoring for the Carbon Market

Abstract

Part I: Principles and Issues 1. Why Community Forest Monitoring? 2. How Much Carbon Does Community Forest Management Save? 3. Local Participation In Mapping, Measuring and Monitoring for Community Carbon Forestry 4. The Policy Context of Community Monitoring for REDD+ 5. Information Requirements for National REDD+ Programmes 6. The Costs And Reliability of Forest Carbon Monitoring by Communities 7. A Field Guide for Community Forest Carbon Monitoring 8. Participatory Mapping and Monitoring of Forest Carbon Services Using Freeware: Cybertracker and Google Earth Part II: Case Studies 9. The Cost to Communities in Nepal of Participating in REDD+ 10. Community Carbon Forestry to Counter Forest Degradation in the Indian Himalayas 11. The Potential of Community Forest Management Under REDD+ for Achieving MDG Goals in Tanzania 12. West Africa: Carbon Savings Through Community Management of Dry Savanna Woodlands 13. Can Carbon Compete with the Loggers in Papua New Guinea? 14. Will Poor Nepalese Communities be able to Access REDD+ Carbon Credits? A Legal Analysis