Agency in Earth System Governance: The Case of Ghana and International Forest Governance
This study fleshes out the analytic theme of agency in earth system governance and applies it to the case of international forest governance. Reducing emissions from forest degradation and deforestation (REDD) is an emerging mechanism to avoid deforestation under a post-2012 climate regime. Deforestation accounts for around 18 percent of global GHG emissions and is occurring mainly in economically underdeveloped, tropical countries. The study traces the agents of international forest governance and deforestation in Ghana and examines how the agents of deforestation in Ghana are represented and organized locally, nationally and internationally. The aim is to gain understanding of who shapes the REDD process and what implications this may have for the effectiveness of this emerging mechanism.
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Biermann, F., M. Betsill, J. Gupta, N. Kanie, L. Lebel, D. Liverman, H. Schroeder, and B. Siebenhuener (2009), Earth System Governance: People, Places, and the Planet. Science and Implementation Plan of the Earth System Governance Project. Earth System Governance Report 1, IHDP Report 20. Bonn, IHDP