Forest Preservation in a Changing Climate
REDD+ and Indigenous and Community Rights in Indonesia and Tanzania

This book provides a comprehensive socio-legal examination of how global efforts to fight climate change by reducing carbon emissions in the forestry sector (known as REDD+) have affected the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in developing countries. Grounded in extensive qualitative empirical research conducted globally, the book shows that the transnational legal process for REDD+ has created both serious challenges and unexpected opportunities for the recognition and protection of indigenous and community rights. It reveals that the pursuit of REDD+ has resulted in important variations in how human rights standards are understood and applied across multiple sites of law in the field of REDD+, with mixed results for indigenous peoples and local communities in Indonesia and Tanzania. With its original findings, rigourous research design, and interdisciplinary analytical framework, this book will make a valuable contribution to the study of transnational legal processes in a globalizing world. This title is also available as Open Access.

Introduction: grappling with the REDD+ paradox; 1. The transnational legal process for REDD+; 2. Rights and REDD+ in international and transnational law; 3. Rights and jurisdictional REDD+ in Indonesia; 4. Rights and jurisdictional REDD+ in Tanzania; 5. Rights and project-based REDD+ in Indonesia and Tanzania; 6. Comparing rights and REDD+ in Indonesia and Tanzania; Conclusion: REDD+, rights, and law in a transnational perspective.

Sébastien Jodoin is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University, Montréal, and is a member of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. He previously worked for Amnesty International Canada, the United Nations, the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, and the Canadian Centre for International Justice.