Download Free Ecosystem Restoration Concessions In Indonesia Conflicts And Discourses Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online Ecosystem Restoration Concessions In Indonesia Conflicts And Discourses and write the review.

Abstract: Approaches and instruments focused on market mechanisms and private enterprises, including private protected areas, are promoted as ways to resolve global environmental and developmental problems. In Indonesia, Ecosystem Restoration Concessions (ERCs) have been developed as a new market-oriented governmental instrument to counter current deforestation processes and to restore forest ecosystems. Conservation and development organizations, along with state authorities, view ERCs as a highly promising instrument in Indonesia and in other countries as well. Experiences with ERCs are still limited, however, and their viability is uncertain. The implementation of ERCs in Indonesia has been controversial and the impact of ERCs on forests and forest-dependent communities has been fiercely disputed. This article explores these conflicts and disputes with a focus on the Harapan ERC and weighs the relevance of ERCs for German development cooperation. The improvement of the accountability of such projects and the implementation of mediation facilities are emphasized as prerequisites to establishing such market-oriented instruments according to international standards of nature conservation, the rights of indigenous and local populations, and sustainable development. The author concludes that decisions about strategies and instruments applied in forest-related development cooperation must involve a reconsideration of the mindsets that currently determine conservation approaches and development cooperation
This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom. It also explores from the perspective of new institutional political ecology (NIPE) how Europe directly and indirectly affected and affects the commons globally. Most of the research on the management of commons pool resources is limited to dealing with one of two topics: either the interaction between local participatory governance and development of institutions for commons management, or a political- economy approach that focuses on global change as it is related to the increasingly globalised expansion of capitalist modes of production, consumption and societal reproduction. This volume bridges the two, addressing how global players affect the commons worldwide and how they relate to responses emerging from within the commons in a global- local (glocal) world. Authors from a range of academic disciplines present research findings on recent developments on the commons, including: historical insights; new innovations for participatory institutions building in Europe or several types of commons grabbing, especially in Africa related to European investments; and restrictions on the management of commons at the international level. European case studies are included, providing interesting examples of local participation in commons resource management, while simultaneously showing Europe as a centre for globalized capitalism and its norms and values, affecting the rest of the world, particularly developing countries. This book will be of interest to students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including natural resource management, environmental governance, political geography and environmental history.
This is the first Green Growth Policy Review of Indonesia. It examines progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a special emphasis on the nexus of land use, ecosystems and climate change.
Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation explores how conservationists decide whether, and how, to undertake rehabilitation and reintroduction (R&R) when rescuing orphaned orangutans. The author demonstrates that exploring ethical dilemmas is crucial for understanding ongoing disagreements about how to help endangered wildlife in an era of anthropogenic extinction. Although R&R might appear an uncontroversial activity, there is considerable debate about how, and why, it ought to be practised. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research with orangutan conservation practitioners, this book examines how ethical trade-offs shape debates about R&R. For example, what if the orphan fails to learn how to be an orangutan again, after years in the company of humans? What if she is sent into the forest only to slowly starve? Would she have been better off in a cage? Could the huge cost of sending a rescued ape back to the wild be better spent on stopping deforestation in the first place? Or do we have a moral obligation to rescue the orphan regardless of cost? This book demonstrates that deconstructing ethical positions is crucial for understanding ongoing disagreements about how to help our endangered great ape kin and other wildlife. Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation is essential reading for those interested in conservation and animal welfare, animal studies, primatology, geography, environmental philosophy, and anthropology.
The book uses a multi-disciplinary approach to address lessons learned and challenges encountered over the years in different ecological, economic, political and cultural contexts. Protected areas were originally established as recreational spaces and to protect some components of nature; however, today they are also expected to provide an increasing range of benefits to an array of people. Protected areas no longer simply “protect” but they also provide ecosystem services and facilitate poverty reduction via local development, ecotourism, and sustainable resource use. Integrating tourism and conservation with existing local historical, socio-economic, and institutional landscapes is associated with the promotion of local community participation in resource management. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understand social-ecological systems that explain the relationship between protected areas, tourism, and community livelihoods linkages. The book provides a platform for dialogue to develop a better understanding of the complex relationships between protected areas, tourism, and community livelihoods linkages. Due to the role tourism plays in poverty alleviation, conservation, empowerment and addressing other environmental and social challenges, the book also connects tourism with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers of tourism, conservation, natural resource management, sustainable development as well as professionals and policymakers involved in conservation policy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
Zusammenfassung: This report is part of the study 'Nature and impact of German bilateral development cooperation in the forest sector' of the Institute of Forest Sciences at the University of Freiburg which explores scope, organization, impacts and policy trends of forest related bilateral German development cooperation in the context of overall international development assistance and with a particular comparative perspective on the case study countries Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia. This report focuses on the case study country Indonesia and explores the forest problematic and context of forest related German development cooperation in Indonesia as well as the influence and effectiveness of this cooperation. The report furthermore attempts an analysis of different approaches to forest protection and management, and includes an exploration of their suitability to achieve environmental and social goals of German development policies in the Forestry Sector as well as an assessment of various instruments applied in the context of these approaches.Chapter 2.1 provides an overview and analysis of the forest problematic and the socioeconomic and political context of forest related German development cooperation in Indonesia with a particular focus on Indonesia's involvement in the REDD preparatory process as well as problems regarding land tenure issues and forest dependent communities.Chapter 2.2 analyses forest related funding, programs, projects, and actors of bilateral German development cooperation in Indonesia in the context of overall German development assistance in Indonesia and the Southeast Asian region. In Chapter 2.3 two major programs of forest related bilateral German development cooperation in Indonesia are analyzed. The Forests and Climate Change Programme (FORCLIME) addresses the whole forestry sector in Indonesia. The review and assessment of the program is based on public documents and publications as well as on interviews with staff from all organizational levels of the program and people involved in activities of the program, with a particular focus on measures addressing community based forest management in Kalimantan. Another major focus of forest related German development cooperation in Indonesia is the support for Ecosystem Restoration Concessions (ERC). The analysis of this instrument concentrates on the Harapan Rainforest Project on Sumatra and is based on public documents and literature as well as on interviews and information from Harapan staff and other actors involved in the establishment of ERCs in Indonesia. Impacts of the ERC on forest dependent communities as well as national and transnational discourses regarding the Harapan Rainforest Project have been in the focus of the study.The concluding Chapter 2.4 provides a synthesis of the findings with regard to forest related bilateral German development cooperation in Indonesia. The chapter addresses problems and challenges found in the context of the study, assesses impacts and effectiveness of forest related German development cooperation in Indonesia, and suggests possible improvements with regard to future development cooperation. It furthermore provides an analysis of strategies and instruments of forest related development cooperation in the context of changing discourses on environment and development and reflects about the significance of related mindsets for the determination and implementation of development policies in the forest sector.The study is mainly based on the review and analysis of publicly available data on Official Development Assistance (ODA) and development projects as well as related documents, studies and literature. The study furthermore refers to information, opinions, and assessments provided by relevant persons in government agencies, development organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), academic institutions and different stakeholder groups in Germany and in the case study countries which have been gathered in interviews, discussions and queries. In some parts, the analyses and assessments are supported by first-hand experiences of selected projects on site
Drawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, and presenting original research from across the Archipelago, this book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base, to markets and to the state. It is an engaged study, which fills important analytical gaps and addresses real-world concerns, exploring the uplands as components of national and global systems of meaning, power, and production. It offers a significant re-assessment of concepts, processes, histories, relationships and discourses, many of which are not unique to either the uplands or Indonesia, making the book essential and compelling reading for both scholars and practitioners.