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Reducing carbon transaction costs in community-based forest management

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The article considers the potential for community-based forest management (of existing forests) in developing countries, as a future CDM strategy, to sequester and mitigate carbon and to claim credits in future commitment periods. This kind of forestry is cost-effective, and should bring many more benefits to local populations than do afforestation and reforestation, thus contributing more strongly to sustainable development. However, community forest management projects are small-scale, and the transaction costs associated with justifying them as climate projects are likely to be high. A research project being carried out in five developing countries is testing carbon measurement and monitoring methods which can be carried out by community members with very little formal education, which should greatly reduce these transaction costs. Using hand-held computers with GIS capability and attached GPS, villagers with 4 years of primary education are able to accurately map their forest resource and input biomass data from sample plots into a program which calculates carbon values.

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  • Margaret M. Skutsch, 2005. "Reducing carbon transaction costs in community-based forest management," Climate Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(4), pages 433-443, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tcpoxx:v:5:y:2005:i:4:p:433-443
    DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2005.9685568
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    1. Foley, G. & Floor, W. & madon, G. & Lawali, E.M. & Montagne, P. & Tounao, K., 1997. "The Niger Household Energy Project. Promoting Rural Fuelwood Markets and Village Management of Natural Woodlands," Papers 362, World Bank - Technical Papers.
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    1. Larson, Donald F. & Dinar, Ariel & Blankespoor, Brian, 2012. "Aligning climate change mitigation and agricultural policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6080, The World Bank.
    2. Makino Yamanoshita & Masahiro Amano, 2012. "Capability development of local communities for project sustainability in afforestation/reforestation clean development mechanism," Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Springer, vol. 17(4), pages 425-440, April.
    3. Margaret Skutsch & Patrick E. Van Laake, 2008. "Redd as Multi-Level Governance In-The-Making," Energy & Environment, , vol. 19(6), pages 831-844, November.
    4. Peter A Minang & Michael K. McCall, 2008. "Multi-Level Governance Conditions for Implementing Multilateral Environmental Agreements: The Case of CDM Forestry Readiness in Cameroon," Energy & Environment, , vol. 19(6), pages 845-860, November.
    5. Larson, Donald F. & Dinar, Ariel & Frisbie, J. Aapris, 2011. "Agriculture and the clean development mechanism," Policy Research Working Paper Series 5621, The World Bank.

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