Conserving Carbon in the Extractive Frontiers of Insular Southeast Asia: Risks or Opportunities?

全球气候变化治理越来越多地使用基于市场的机制，向森林使用者提供财政激励，以维持东南亚边境地区的森林碳。与此同时，这些森林景观正在迅速转变为“繁荣作物”生产，如油棕和橡胶。然而，人们对碳治理如何与这种单一作物交叉影响当地生计、财产权和社会关系知之甚少。本项目研究全球市场驱动的方法，REDD+（减少环境退化和毁林排放量+），如何管理森林碳维斯商品生产，这如何影响农村生计，并影响气候变化治理的可行性。

Increasingly global climate change governance uses market-based mechanisms to offer forest users financial incentives to maintain forest carbon in the frontiers of Southeast Asia. At the same time, these forest landscapes are rapidly being converted for ‘boom crop’ production such as oil palm and rubber. However, little is known about how carbon governance intersects with such monocropping to affect local livelihoods, property rights and social relations. This project examines how the global market-driven approach, REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Environmental Degradation and Deforestation+), governs forest carbon vis-à-vis commodity production, how this impacts rural livelihoods, and influences the viability of climate change governance.