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| Article Title | Community Monitoring for REDD+: International Promises and Field Realities | | Author | Finn Danielsen, Teis Adrian, Søren Brofeldt, Meine van Noordwijk, Michael Poulsen, Subekti Rahayu, Ervan Rutishauser, Ida Theilade, Atiek Widayati, Ngo The An, Tran Nguyen Bang, Arif Budiman, Martin Enghoff, Arne E. Jensen, Yuyun Kurniawan, Qiaohong Li, Zhao Mingxu, Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt, Suoksompong Prixa, Vongvisouk Thoumtone, Zulfira Warta and Neil Burgess | | Year | 2013 | | Journal Title | Ecology and Society | | Institution | The Resilience Alliance | | Volume | 18 | | Issue | 3 | | Pages | 41 | | Call Number | JA0500-13 | | Keywords | biodiversity; Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance standard; forest carbon; governance; livelihood; monitoring; Payment for Ecosystem Service programs; REDD+; Southeast Asia |
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| Will community monitoring assist in delivering just and equitable REDD+? We assessed whether local
communities can effectively estimate carbon stocks in some of the world’s most carbon rich forests, using simple field protocols,
and we reviewed whether community monitoring exists in current REDD+ pilots. We obtained similar results for forest carbon
when measured by communities and professional foresters in 289 vegetation plots in Southeast Asia. Most REDD+ monitoring
schemes, however, contain no community involvement. To close the gulf between United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change texts on involving communities and field implementation realities, we propose greater embedding of community
monitoring within national REDD+ pilot schemes, which we argue will lead to a more just REDD+. |
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