The Carbon Fix by Stephanie Paladino, Shirley J Fiske - 9781611323337

Taylor & Francis

The Carbon FixForest Carbon, Social Justice, and Environmental Governance\nAuthor(s): Stephanie Paladino, Shirley J Fiske\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Left Coast Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Left Coast Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9781611323337, 978-1611323337\nSynopsis\nGiven the growing urgency to develop global responses to a changing climate, The Carbon Fix examines the social and equity dimensions of putting the worlds forestsand, necessarily, the rural people who manage and depend on themat the center of climate policy efforts such as REDD+, intended to slow global warming. The book assesses the implications of international policy approaches that focus on forests as carbon and especially, forest carbon offsets, for rights, justice, and climate governance.\n\nContributions from leading anthropologists and geographers analyze a growing trend towards market principles and financialization of nature in environmental governance, placing it into conceptual, critical, and historical c.