Emeralds on the Equator: An Avoided Deforestation Carbon Markets Strategy Manual

This strategy for producing and marketing avoided deforestation carbon credits applies Thoumi’s Rational Convergence Model for effective communication, Thoumi’s Emeralds on the Equator “Zamrud Khatulistiwa” Model for environmental services, Afuah’s New Game business model, and Nordhielm’s Big Picture model. Using the value stream of raw materials, manufacturing, and marketing and sales, the avoided deforestation project developer can successfully create value through carbon credits manufacturing and sales for the project owner. The four criteria a developer must use to successfully bring about an avoided deforestation project are the following: the land dictates the rules, rural communities are the gatekeepers for a project, governments dispense rights, and businesses structure risks.Master of ScienceNatural Resources and EnvironmentUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/61353/1/thoumi thesis 2008.pd

Desecuritizar la 'guerra contra las drogas'

This chapter makes use of Colombian-US bilateral relations as a window to trace the evolution of the US-designed ‘war on drugs’, highlighting the role of securitization in the development of counternarcotics activities in Colombia and discussing the process through which the shortcomings of this policy have created opportunities to engage in desecuritization and to design alternative strategies. It explores the principles that have sustained the ‘war on drugs’ and the evolution of Colombian-US relations since 1998, providing an overall assessment of the anti-drug strategy that helps to analyse the possibilities of desecuritization in the light of the Copenhagen school’s securitization theory. Finally, the chapter identifies the challenges that drug policy reform currently faces in Colombia and Latin America more generally