Theorising the Carbon Economy: Carbon Markets for Development
Dr Emily Boyd: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2007-2009)
This Leverhulme funded research aims to theorise the new carbon economy by examining carbon markets for development in the Global South, in particular focusing on knowledge politics, culture and institutions.
Relevant publications:
Boyd, E. (in review) Scalar approaches in the new carbon economy: deliberating the social consequences of carbon sequestration programmes. Environment and Planning A.
Boyd, E., Hultman, N. et al. (in review) Governing CDM for sustainable development: Lessons learned and future prospects. Environmental Science and Policy.
Boyd, E. (in review) Governing carbon markets for development: lessons from a carbon sequestration project in Bolivian Amazonia Development and Change.
Boyd, E. Corbera, E., Kjellen, B., Gutierrez M., Estrada M., (in review). UNFCCC negotiations (pre-Kyoto to COP-9): What the process says about the politics of sinks and CDM International Environmental Agreements.
Boyd, E. (in review) On the road to carbon governance: Exploring scale challenges in the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project in Bolivia. Global Environmental Change.
Boyd, E., May P., Veiga, F., Chang, M. 2007. Can the CDM bring sustainable development? Insights from carbon forestry projects in Brazil and Bolivia. Environmental Science and Policy 10 (5): 419-433.
Boyd, E, Gutierrez, M and Chang, M. 2007. Small-scale forest carbon projects: Adapting CDM to low-income communities, Global Environmental Change 17 (2): 250-259.
Schipper, E.L. and Boyd, E. 2006. UNFCCC COP 11 and COP/MOP 1 At Last, Some Hope? Journal of Environment & Development, 15(1): 75-90.
May, P, Boyd, E, Chang, M, Veiga, M. 2005. Incorporating sustainable development into carbon forest projects in Brazil and Bolivia. Estud.soc.agric., 13 (1): 5-50.
Boyd, E. 2002. The Noel Kempff Project in Bolivia: gender, power and decision-making in climate mitigation, Oxfam Gender and Development Journal, 10 (2): 70-77.
Boyd, E. and Schipper, E., L. 2002. The Marrakech Accord - At the Crossroad to Ratification, Journal of Environment and Development 112, 184-190
Boyd, E. 2002. The Paradox of the Clean Development Mechanism and Sustainable Development, The International Forestry Review: 4(1): 77-80
Book Chapters
Boyd, E. 2006. Scales of Governance in Carbon Sinks: Global Priorities and Local Realities. Chapter Reid, W et al (eds.) "Bridging Scales and Epistemologies: Linking Local Knowledge and Global Science in Environmental Assessments," Island Press, Washington DC, USA.
Conference papers
Boyd, E. and Hope, R. Ecosystem services, poverty and property rights. Paper presented at the Developing Area Studies Group, 16-17 April 2007, Berkeley University.
Boyd, E. & Boyd, J. Revisiting the CDM: Exposing the limits of markets for development. Paper presented at the Workshop Commodifying Carbon: The Ethics of Markets in Nature, 16 July 2007, Osler McGovern Centre, University of Oxford.
Reports
Mansfield, M & Boyd, E. 2007. Commodifying Carbon: The Ethics of Markets in Nature. ECI Workshop Report, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Boyd, E. et al. 2007. The Clean Development Mechanism: Current Status, Perspectives and Future Policy. Tyndall Centre Working Paper 114. University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Brown, K., Adger, W. N., Boyd, E., Corbera, E., Starkey, R. 2004. How do CDM projects contribute to sustainable development? Tyndall Centre Technical Report 16. UEA, Norwich.
May, P., Boyd, E., Veiga, F., and Chang, M. 2004. Local sustainable development effects of carbon forests in Brazil and Bolivia: a view from the field. Markets for Environmental Services: No.5, IIED, London (http://www.iied.org/eep)