Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime.

ABSTRACT: Balancing agendas for climate mitigation and environmental justice continues to be one of the key challenges in climate change governance mechanisms, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+). In this paper we apply the three-dimensional environmental justice framework as a lens to examine the REDD+ process in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos) and the REDD+ social safeguards. We focus particularly on challenges to justice faced by marginalized communities living in forest frontier areas under an authoritarian regime. Drawing on policy analysis and open-ended interviews across different policy levels, we explore procedural, distributional, and recognitional justice across the REDD+ policy levels in Laos. We find that REDD+ social safeguards have been ap

SUBMITTER: Ramcilovic-Suominen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8563914 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature