Abstract
Di Gregorio, M., M. Brockhaus, T. Cronin, E. Muharrom, L. Santoso, S. Mardiah, and M. Büdenbender. 2013. Equity and REDD+ in the media: a comparative analysis of policy discourses. Ecology and Society 18(2): 39. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05694-180239
Highlights
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) is presented at the global level as an effective and cost-efficient option for mitigating climate change (Stern 2007)
The analysis indicates that in Indonesia, Brazil, and Peru, domestic civil society is the main actor raising distributive equity concerns related to REDD+ safeguards, state actors engage with these issues
By examining differences in the media discourse on REDD+ and equity in Indonesia, Brazil, Vietnam, and Peru, we revealed the multifaceted nature of how equity is understood and how different policy actors use different approaches to justify their calls for increased equity in the REDD+ domain
Summary
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) is presented at the global level as an effective and cost-efficient option for mitigating climate change (Stern 2007). Media, and REDD+ Discourse is part of the institutional architecture that structures the behavior of actors and enables and constrains policy action (Hajer 1995). It can be defined as “a specific ensemble of ideas, concepts, and categorizations that are produced, reproduced, and transformed in a particular set of practices and through which meaning is given to physical and social realities” (Hajer 1995:44). The media are both “agents of reproduction of culture” and “the site of symbolic contest over meaning” (Hammond 2004:66), driving policy discourse and filtering the opinions of other policy actors (Andsager 2000, Boykoff 2008)
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