Westholm, Lisa and Arora-Jonsson, Seema
(2015).
Defining Solutions, Finding Problems: Deforestation, Gender, and REDD+ in Burkina Faso.
Conservation and society. 13
:2
, 189-199
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Abstract
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) is a policy instrument meant to mitigate climate change while also achieving poverty reduction in tropical countries. It has garnered critics for homogenising environmental and development governance and for ignoring how similar efforts have tended to exacerbate gender inequalities. Nonetheless, regarding such schemes as inevitable, some feminists argue for requirements that include womens empowerment and participation. In this paper we move beyond discussions about safeguards and examine whether the very framing of REDD programs can provide openings for a transformation as argued for by its proponents. Following the REDD policy process in Burkina Faso, we come to two important insights: REDD is a solution in need of a problem. Assumptions about gender are at the heart of creating actionable knowledge that enabled REDD to be presented as a policy solution to the problems of deforestation, poverty and gender inequality. Second, despite its safeguards, REDD appears to be perpetuating gendered divisions of labour, as formal environmental decision-making moves upwards; and responsibility and the burden of actual environmental labour shifts further down in particularly gendered ways. We explore how this is enabled by the development of policies whose stated aims are to tackle inequalities.
Authors/Creators: | Westholm, Lisa and Arora-Jonsson, Seema | ||||||
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Title: | Defining Solutions, Finding Problems: Deforestation, Gender, and REDD+ in Burkina Faso | ||||||
Series/Journal: | Conservation and society (BIB10382447) | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2015 | ||||||
Volume: | 13 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page range: | 189-199 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 11 | ||||||
Publisher: | Wolters Kluwer | ||||||
ISSN: | 0972-4923 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Journal article | ||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 509 Other Social Sciences > Gender Studies (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 509 Other Social Sciences > Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified | ||||||
Keywords: | deforestation, gender, global governance, REDD, World Bank, Burkina Faso | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3246 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3246 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 13087 | ||||||
Faculty: | LTV - Fakulteten för landskapsarkitektur, trädgårds- och växtproduktionsvetenskap | ||||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development (LTJ, LTV) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 25 Feb 2016 08:04 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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