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- Resource: Report on rights-based rainforest protection
- Resource: Book on REDD+ challenges and choices
- Resource: Brief on community-based forest monitoring for REDD+
- Resource: Book on women's TK and adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh
- Resource: Manual on participatory 3-D modeling for adaptation in India
Resource: Report on rights-based rainforest protection Posted: 02 Jan 2013 02:33 AM PST Rights-based rainforest protection: Why securing the rights of forest peoples is the right way to save the forest This report aims to show how a rights-based approach is both the most effective way to protect the rainforest, as well as the best way to avoid that forest protection leads to human rights violations. It outlines the key elements of a rights-based approach to protecting rainforests, including: the importance of secure tenure rights; the value of traditional management practices and local knowledge; the necessity of real participation; and conflict resolution. Rights-based rainforest protection takes as its starting point the customary rights of local forest communities to their traditional lands, resources and culture. It is built on the acknowledgement of the key role of local communities and indigenous peoples in the management of forests. Chapter one and two give an introduction and a brief overview of the state of the world's rainforests, the forest-dependent people living in the world's rainforest regions and the international legal and regulatory framework for forest peoples' rights. Case studies from the Xingu Indigenous Park in Brazil and the Bukit Duabelas National Park in Sumatra show how people protect forests in practice. Chapter three discusses the key elements of a human rights-based approach to rainforest protection. Case studies from DR Congo and Papua New Guinea show practical experiences. Chapter four looks at the role of the state and national policies. Examples from the work to protect uncontacted indigenous peoples in Peru, and the struggle for participation in forest conservation in DR Congo show how realities on the ground are shaped by national and international policies. In chapter five, the findings and experiences are summed up. Download the report [pdf] … |
Resource: Book on REDD+ challenges and choices Posted: 02 Jan 2013 02:27 AM PST Analysing REDD+, Challenges and Choices This book follows two earlier REDD+ volumes from CIFOR, 'Moving Ahead with REDD: Issues, options and implications' (2008) and 'Realising REDD+:National strategy and policy options' (2009), and provides an analysis of actual REDD+ design and early implementation. It takes stock of national, subnational and local REDD+ experiences and identifies the challenge sin designing and implementing effective, efficient and equitable REDD+ policies and projects. Policy choices to overcome obstacles in scaling up REDD+ are also elaborated. Part 1 includes four chapters analyzing REDD+; Part 2 focuses on implementation, including, among others chapters on politics and power in national REDD+ policy processes, financing REDD+, benefit-sharing, and tenure; and Part 3 focuses on measuring REDD+ performance, including safeguards. Download the book [pdf] … |
Resource: Brief on community-based forest monitoring for REDD+ Posted: 02 Jan 2013 02:19 AM PST Community-based forest monitoring for REDD+: lessons and reflections from the field This policy brief introduces the roles that local communities can play in monitoring changes in forest carbon stocks. It discusses lessons learnt from the Community Carbon Accounting Project, which is training local communities in Asia-Pacific countries on forest monitoring, from the perspectives of sustainable development and carbon accounting. Download the brief [pdf] … |
Resource: Book on women's TK and adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh Posted: 02 Jan 2013 02:16 AM PST Garo women's traditional knowledge as a response to climate change This book describes the results of a participatory research development project among Garo people in Bangladesh, implemented by a local NGO. The research activities aimed to record Garo women's ecological knowledge, giving special attention to its cultural-symbolic context, and exploring the opportunity to give it value as a response to climate change. After presenting the context with regard Garo people, their society and tradition, the book chapters address Garo worldview and practices regarding climate and agriculture; their ecological knowledge; and Garo women's perception of climate change and adaptive attitude. The conclusions sum up the research findings with regard to Garo women and climate change, their ecological knowledge and its cultural submission, as well as the underlying issues of land tenure and forest biodiversity. Download the book [pdf] … |
Resource: Manual on participatory 3-D modeling for adaptation in India Posted: 02 Jan 2013 02:13 AM PST Participatory 3-D Modeling for Climate Change Adaptation in India: Experience, Guiding Principles, Future Opportunities Although participatory mapping for development is not a new concept, the application of geographic information technologies at the grassroots level, especially for indigenous peoples, has only emerged in the last two decades. Participatory Three-Dimensional Modeling, a participatory Geographic Information System, is a method that attempts to convey indigenous experience and spatial knowledge in a digital form that is communicable to researchers and policymakers, theoretically empowering indigenous communities with a voice in the legislative planning and management of natural resources. Through the construction and demarcation of a geo-referenced, scaled relief model, indigenous communities can extract and display indigenous knowledge in a way that is meaningful not only for policymakers and academics but also to the communities themselves. This draft manual provides guidelines for the implementation of Participatory 3D Modeling, as well as a basic, step-by-step guide. Download the manual [pdf] … |
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