Climate change, forests and REDD: lessons for institutional design

1. Climate change and forests: from the Noordwijk Declaration to REDD -- 2. The forest transition, the drivers of deforestation and governance approaches -- 3. Global forest governance -- 4. The emergence of REDD on the global policy agenda -- 5. Case study : Vietnam -- 6. Case study : Indonesia -- 7. Case study : Cameroon -- 8. Case study : Peru -- 9. Comparative analysis of Vietnam, Indonesia, Cameroon and Peru -- 10. REDD policies, global food, fibre and timber markets, and 'leakage' -- 11. The future of forests.

A search for new methods for dealing with climate change led to the identification of forest maintenance as a potential policy option that could cost-effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with the development of measures for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). This book explores how an analysis of past forest governance patterns from the global through to the local level, can help us to build institutions which more effectively deal with forests within the climate change regime. The book assesses the options for reducing emissions from deforestation in d