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Barriers to zero tropical deforestation and ‘opening up’ sustainable and just transitions

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posted on 2023-06-09, 21:55 authored by Izabela Delabre, Callum Nolan
The UN Sustainable Development Goals include ambitious targets for tackling deforestation and emphasise the roles of diverse actors and partnerships for transformative change. Initiatives for governing tropical forests take multiple forms, including ‘zero deforestation’ supply chain initiatives, carbon forestry, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), legislative frameworks that intend to cut off markets for illegally harvested timber, and emerging landscape and jurisdictional approaches. Drawing on insights from political ecology and sustainability transitions research, this chapter discusses the barriers to transitioning to ‘zero deforestation’ through consideration of: (1) the contested framing of the problem of deforestation, (2) how sustainable forest governance is translated and enacted across scales, and (3) who is represented in ‘the transition’. This reveals opportunities for sustainable and just transitions for forests. We argue that careful attention must be paid to the influences of power and politics surrounding forest governance and its social and ecological outcomes, and the need to challenge orthodoxies around economic growth that currently underpin policy responses.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

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MDPI

Pages

470.0

Book title

Transitioning to Sustainable Life on Land

ISBN

9783038978787

Series

Transitioning to Sustainability

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  • Management Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Volker Beckmann

Legacy Posted Date

2020-10-19

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2020-10-19

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