Geographic overlaps between priority areas for forest carbon-storage efforts and those for delivering peacebuilding programs: Implications for policy design
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Geographic overlaps between priority areas for forest carbon-storage efforts and those for delivering peacebuilding programs : Implications for policy design. / Nunez, Augusto Carlos Castro; Mertz, Ole; Sosa, Chrystian C.
I: Environmental Research Letters, Bind 12, Nr. 5, 054014, 2017.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Letter › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Geographic overlaps between priority areas for forest carbon-storage efforts and those for delivering peacebuilding programs
T2 - Implications for policy design
AU - Nunez, Augusto Carlos Castro
AU - Mertz, Ole
AU - Sosa, Chrystian C.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Of the countries considering national-level policies for incentivizing reductions in forest-based greenhouse gas emissions (REDD+), some 25 are experiencing (or are emerging from) armed-conflicts. It has been hypothesized that the outcomes of the interactions between carbon-storage and peacebuilding efforts could result in either improved or worsened forest conservation and likewise increased or decreased conflict. Hence, for this study we explore potential interactions between forest carbon-storage and peacebuilding efforts, with Colombia as a case study. Spatial associations between biomass carbon and three conflict-related variables suggest that such interactions may exist. Nonetheless, while priority areas for carbon-focused conservation are presumably those at highest risks of deforestation, our research indicates that forests with lower risk of deforestation are typically those affected by armed-conflict. Our findings moreover highlight three possible roles played by Colombian forested municipalities in armed groups' military strategies: venues for battle, hideouts, and sources of natural resources to finance war.
AB - Of the countries considering national-level policies for incentivizing reductions in forest-based greenhouse gas emissions (REDD+), some 25 are experiencing (or are emerging from) armed-conflicts. It has been hypothesized that the outcomes of the interactions between carbon-storage and peacebuilding efforts could result in either improved or worsened forest conservation and likewise increased or decreased conflict. Hence, for this study we explore potential interactions between forest carbon-storage and peacebuilding efforts, with Colombia as a case study. Spatial associations between biomass carbon and three conflict-related variables suggest that such interactions may exist. Nonetheless, while priority areas for carbon-focused conservation are presumably those at highest risks of deforestation, our research indicates that forests with lower risk of deforestation are typically those affected by armed-conflict. Our findings moreover highlight three possible roles played by Colombian forested municipalities in armed groups' military strategies: venues for battle, hideouts, and sources of natural resources to finance war.
KW - armed-conflicts
KW - Climate change
KW - co-benefits
KW - forest-carbon storage
KW - peacebuilding
KW - REDD
KW - UNFCCC
U2 - 10.1088/1748-9326/aa6f20
DO - 10.1088/1748-9326/aa6f20
M3 - Letter
AN - SCOPUS:85019559256
VL - 12
JO - Environmental Research Letters
JF - Environmental Research Letters
SN - 1748-9326
IS - 5
M1 - 054014
ER -
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