Rendering Local: The Politics of Differential Knowledge in Carbon Offset Governance
Rendering Local: The Politics of Differential Knowledge in Carbon Offset Governance
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本地化：碳抵消治理中差异化知识的政治
DOI：
10.1080/24694452.2019.1707642
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Wim Carton
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文献类型：
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作者：
Wim Carton
环境治理依赖于跨学科和跨文化政治边界的社会生态知识的转化。然而，相对较少的研究探讨了如何将此类专家知识转化回项目实施的当地环境。本文探讨了这些过程的翻译为例，森林为基础的碳抵消使用的案例研究的树木在乌干达的全球利益项目。基于在两个项目地区的连续实地考察，它研究了项目参与者如何理解气候变化，碳和碳交易，以及这些理解作为碳抵消治理的一部分所做的工作。本文确定了一个独特的“渲染本地”的项目逻辑和理由，这部分是作为一个管理策略的项目组织者，部分是参与者自己的抵消概念的社会生态环境中，他们嵌入的阐述的结果。虽然这些经常不守规矩的翻译提供了构成抵消市场的社会材料组合中的紧张和矛盾，但它们也有助于促进项目管理。这里确定的动态突出了环境知识的不均衡地理位置，有助于抵消市场的治理，因此引起了研究碳林业和新自由主义环保主义的学者的更广泛的关注。
Environmental governance relies on the translation of socioecological knowledge across disciplines and cultural–political boundaries. Comparatively few studies have, however, examined how such expert knowledge is translated back into the local contexts where projects are implemented. This article explores these processes of translation for the case of forest-based carbon offsetting using a case study of the Trees for Global Benefits project in Uganda. Based on successive fieldwork in two project regions, it examines how climate change, carbon, and carbon trading are understood by project participants and what work these understandings perform as part of the governance of carbon offsets. The article identifies a distinctive “rendering local” of project logics and rationale, which occurs in part as a management strategy by the project organizers and is in part the outcome of participants’ own articulations of offsetting concepts within the socioecological contexts in which they are embedded. Although these often unruly translations provide tensions and contradictions within the sociomaterial assemblage that constitutes the offset market, they also serve to facilitate project management. The dynamics identified here highlight the uneven geographies of environmental knowledge as instrumental to the governance of the offset market, therefore warranting closer attention by scholars studying carbon forestry and neoliberal environmentalism more generally.
影响因子：
6
作者：
Dawson, Neil M.;Mason, Michael;Schroeder, Heike
通讯作者：
Schroeder, Heike
影响因子：
5.1
作者：
Leach, Melissa;Fairhead, James;Fraser, James
通讯作者：
Fraser, James