ANTH 266 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Reducing Emissions From Deforestation And Forest Degradation, Ecosystem Services
19 Feb 2019
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Redd+ : reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation. Fundamental premise: if households and governments are given payments and other types of rewards that equal/exceed what could be raised by cutting down trees, then forests will be better protected and carbon conserved. Checklist-ification: projects that ignore deeper issues and. From timber management to biodiversity conservation to ecosystem services in vietnam"s political forests. Political forests --where the state controlled land management, timber, resource usage, harvesting, etc. In the war years (1943-1976), forests cover declined from 14. 3 million ha to 11. 1 million ha. Landslides, flooding, and other environmental disasters focuses government action. Tended to be concentrated in forested mountain areas, where ethnic minorities were singled out and vilified as forest destroyers . Idcp approaches coincided with increased enthusiasm for decentralization of forest management. Household rights to forests were unevenly distributed. The forests lands that were decentralized were the poorest quality forests lands.
