Global Forest Governance and Climate Change

1. Global Forest Governance and Climate Change: Introduction and Overview; Emmanuel O. Nuesiri .- 2. Godfather Politics and Exclusionary Local Representation in REDD+: Case Study of the Design of the UN-REDD Supervised Nigeria-REDD Proposal; Emmanuel O. Nuesiri .- 3. The Illusion of Participation: Tokenism in REDD+ Pilot Projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); Raymond Achu Samndong .- 4. Institutional Choice and Substantive Representation of Local People in Carbon Forestry in Uganda; Robert Mbeche .- 5. Displacement, Power and REDD+: A Forest History of Carbonized Exclusion; Emma Jane Lord .- 6. Examining the Supply and Demand of Effective Participation and Representation; George Akwah Neba, Gretchen Walters, Ha-Young Jung .- 7. Experience of Participatory Forest Management in India - Lessons for Governance and Institutional Arrangements under REDD+; Indu K. Murthy et al. .- 8. REDD+ and the Reconfiguration of Public Authority in the Forest Sector: A Comparative Case Study of Indonesia and Brazil; Chris Höhne et al. .- 9. Evolution of the Mexico's REDD+ Readiness Process Through the Lens of Legitimacy; Jovanka Spiric .- 10. When REDD+ Fails to Support Democratic Representation: Legitimizing Non-Democratic Practices in the Amazon; Carol M. Burga.

Emmanuel O. Nuesiri is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and a Research Affiliate with the Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA. His research interests include democratic decentralisation, participation, and political representation in climate change and forestry initiatives such as REDD+.