Combating Deforestation through REDD+ in the Brazilian Amazon:

a New Social Contract?

Authors

  • Anthony Hall London School of Economics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v4n1.2013.9201

Keywords:

REDD, Social contract, Deforestation, Amazonia

Abstract

Brazil is developing a number of REDD+ schemes in Amazonia that offer economic incentives to discourage deforestation and promote conservation. Building upon longer traditions of forest preservation and sustainable development in the region, REDD+ could be said to embody elements of a new ‘social contract’ that underpins resource governance, based on mutual obligations, rights and responsibilities. This will have to be founded on negotiated agreements among major stakeholders; namely, central and state governments, the NGO sector, private business interests and local beneficiary populations. Despite its embryonic nature and having to face major challenges of implementation and scaling up, REDD+ could offer the beginnings of a fresh paradigm in environmental policy based on a social contract that could help sustain low rates of forest loss in future.

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Author Biography

Anthony Hall, London School of Economics

Professor of Social Policy Department of Social Policy London School of Economics and Political Science
London, WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom

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Hall, A. (2013). Combating Deforestation through REDD+ in the Brazilian Amazon:: a New Social Contract?. Sustainability in Debate, 4(1), 79–98. https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v4n1.2013.9201

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