Abstract
Zelli, F., T. Nielsen, and W. Dubber. 2019. Seeing the forest for the trees: identifying discursive convergence and dominance in complex REDD+ governance. Ecology and Society 24(1):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10632-240110
Highlights
AND RATIONALE Institutional complexity has been increasingly accepted and scrutinized as an inherent structural characteristic of global environmental governance today, and this by a variety of scholarships ranging from international law and international relations to human geography and environmental studies
Underneath the institutional diversity on REDD+ monitoring, there is a considerable dominance of techno-managerial perspectives and carbon commodification views, while community-based and participatory elements are of marginal importance
Hierarchy among monitoring practices in complex REDD+ governance Across the sampled country reports we found a high level of detail in the remote sensing sections, regarding both design and implementation
Summary
AND RATIONALE Institutional complexity has been increasingly accepted and scrutinized as an inherent structural characteristic of global environmental governance today, and this by a variety of scholarships ranging from international law and international relations to human geography and environmental studies (cf. Lubell et al 2014). They share the assumption that this complexity matters in crucial ways for the equity and effectiveness of environmental governance processes (Folke et al 2007, Ekstrom and Young 2009). This complexity may disadvantage in particular those stakeholders with less-developed organizational or financial capacities because they are ill-equipped to keep track of, participate in, or benefit from the plurality of institutions and discussions
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