Reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Democratic Republic of Congo: market-based conservation in a context of limited statehood

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Review of African Political Economy Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI:10.1080/03056244.2021.1997733

C. Reyniers.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is an international mechanism linked to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It has been described in the field of political ecology as the panacea of neoliberal nature conservation policies, in particular though the decreasing role of the state in the definition and implementation of forest policies in favour of market-based-mechanisms and non-governmental actors. The article explores the links between the privatisation of forest conservation and national sovereignty in the context of limited statehood through a case study in the Mai Ndombe province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It proposes an original approach combining African political anthropology with Franz Neumann's political economy analyses of the power of authoritarian states. It argues that this model of forest conservation uses carbon accounting and results-based payment, which privileges private actors for the design and implementation of REDD+ activities; it also paradoxically strengthens Congelese state legitimacy.

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减少刚果民主共和国的森林砍伐和退化：有限国家背景下基于市场的保护

摘要减少森林砍伐和退化排放（REDD+）是一项与《联合国气候变化框架公约》相关的国际机制。在政治生态学领域，它被描述为新自由主义自然保护政策的灵丹妙药，特别是尽管国家在森林政策的定义和实施中的作用越来越小，有利于基于市场的机制和非政府行为者。本文通过对刚果民主共和国马伊恩多姆贝省的案例研究，探讨了有限国家背景下森林保护私有化与国家主权之间的联系。它提出了一种将非洲政治人类学与弗朗茨·诺依曼对威权国家权力的政治经济学分析相结合的独创方法。它认为，这种森林保护模式使用了碳核算和基于结果的支付，这使私人行为者在设计和实施REDD+活动方面享有特权；矛盾的是，它也强化了康格勒国家的合法性。

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Review of African Political Economy Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends and issues in Africa. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression, whether driven by global forces or local ones (such as class, race, community and gender), and to materialist interpretations of change in Africa. It has sustained a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa.