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The Carbon Calculation
Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique
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The Carbon Calculation
Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique
About this book
The Carbon Calculation examines how climate science, the policy world, and neoliberalism have mutually informed each other to define the problem of climate change as one of "market failure"āprecluding alternatives to market-based solutions.
Focusing on REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), the book demonstrates how industrialized countries are able to maintain their socioeconomic models largely unaltered while claiming to address global warming using forests in the Global South to offset their pollution. By examining the creation and implementation of REDD+ historically and ethnographically, the book traces the social life of this mechanism as it travels across a complex network spanning several interacting levels: international, national, and local. Through cases in the Brazilian state of Acre and the ZambĆ©zia province in Mozambique, the author demonstrates how global climate policy has created new opportunities and rationales for unprecedented levels of intervention in the Global Southāall under the guise of saving the planet.
The Carbon Calculation critically highlights the ways in which politics has reinforced a scientific focus on one possible solution to the problem of climate changeānamely those that largely absolve the industrialized world from undertaking politically painful transformations in its own economic model.
Focusing on REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), the book demonstrates how industrialized countries are able to maintain their socioeconomic models largely unaltered while claiming to address global warming using forests in the Global South to offset their pollution. By examining the creation and implementation of REDD+ historically and ethnographically, the book traces the social life of this mechanism as it travels across a complex network spanning several interacting levels: international, national, and local. Through cases in the Brazilian state of Acre and the ZambĆ©zia province in Mozambique, the author demonstrates how global climate policy has created new opportunities and rationales for unprecedented levels of intervention in the Global Southāall under the guise of saving the planet.
The Carbon Calculation critically highlights the ways in which politics has reinforced a scientific focus on one possible solution to the problem of climate changeānamely those that largely absolve the industrialized world from undertaking politically painful transformations in its own economic model.
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Publisher
University of Arizona PressYear
2023Print ISBN
9780816556588, 9780816546633eBook ISBN
9780816546640Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Carbon and the Synecdochical Re-inscription of Science
- 2. The UNFCCC Negotiation Process: Agreeing to Keep Talking
- 3. Forests at the Center of Climate Change Policies
- 4. Operating Transnational Governance Locally: REDD in Acre and Mozambique
- 5. REDD on the Ground: Broadening the Scope, Fostering Vagueness and Confusion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index