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Community forest management: Can the green economy contribute to environmental justice?
Author(s) -
Barkin David,
Fuente Mario
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
natural resources forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1477-8947
pISSN - 0165-0203
DOI - 10.1111/1477-8947.12010
Subject(s) - dilemma , sustainability , indigenous , face (sociological concept) , business , sustainable development , environmental resource management , economic justice , environmental planning , sustainable forest management , trace (psycholinguistics) , set (abstract data type) , political science , economics , ecology , sociology , geography , computer science , social science , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , law , biology , programming language
Policymakers face a dilemma in highly diverse societies with many ecosystems: how to implement national policies that allow for serious consideration of these differences. In connection with the attempts to advance towards sustainability in forest systems, M exico is confronting this problem with difficulty. Although it has committed to implementing policies consistent with REDD + , there are competing pressures for supporting commercial development of plantations on the one hand, and community based management systems that involve multiple objectives in complex proposals on the other. We trace the implications for environmental justice of the choices being made by indigenous communities in the highlands of O axaca for promoting sustainable programmes that assure adequate living standards and environmental protection. The analysis shows that this alternative approach offers an interesting set of outcomes that the standard paradigm of the green economy has difficulty achieving.