ADRIAN, F.

ALFONSO, S. P.

MONTEIRO, J. M. G.

ROBLEDO, M. A.

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Tropentag, September 17-19, 2013, Stuttgart-Hohenheim“Agricultural development within the rural-urban continuum”Environmental Governance Analysis for REDD+ Implementation inthe Municipality of Cachoeiras de Macacu, BrazilFlores Adria´n1, Miguel Aguilar Robledo2, Udo Nehren1, Sandra Patricia Alfonso 1,Joyce Monteiro31Cologne University of Applied Sciences (CUAS), Institute for Technology and Resources Managementin the Tropics and Subtropics - ITT, Germany2Autonomous University of San Luis Potos´ı, Social Sciences and Humanities Coordination, Mexico3Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, EMBRAPA, BrazilAbstractDeforestation and forest degradation activities are the biggest source of Greenhouse Gas(GHG) emissions in Brazil. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degrada-tion (REDD+), developed under the United Nations Framework Convention on ClimateChange (UNFCCC), is one mechanism that could help address both climate change mit-igation and sustainable forest management including biodiversity protection and povertyreduction. REDD+ strategies aim at making forests more valuable standing than defo-rested, by assigning a financial value for the carbon stored in them. The overall goal ofthis research is to determine the feasibility of REDD+ to support suitable land and forestmanagement in the municipality of Cachoeiras de Macacu. The municipality is locatedin the state of Rio de Janeiro within the highly fragmented Mata Atlaˆntica biome. Theresearch is based on an environmental governance analysis at the national, regional, andlocal scales. The elements of the environmental governance frameworks were contrastedwith the elements of the REDD+ framework as the baseline, scope, funding instrumentsand, distribution mechanisms, in order to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportuni-ties, and threats for the incorporation of the mechanism in the study area. This analyticalexercise allowed drawing conclusions about the major challenges that the incorporation ofthe mechanisms faces in the study area. The landownership hereditary system, intensiveindustrial and urban growth, lack of knowledge of REDD+ by authorities and inconsisten-cies in the law represent some of the major obstacles to define the scope into the studyarea. Nevertheless, the existence of public and private initiatives such as the “ReservasParticulares do Patrimoˆnio Natural” (RPPN), the “Plano de Areas Verdes,” and the crea-tion of “Monumentos Naturales,” open a window of opportunity for the development ofsubnational REDD+ initiatives.Keywords: Cachoeiras de Macacu, environmental governance, feasibility, Mata Atlantica, politicalecology, REDD+Contact Address: Flores Adria´n, Cologne University of Applied Sciences (CUAS), Institute for Technology andResources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics - ITT, So¨mmeringstraße 66, 50823 Ko¨ln, Germany, e-mail:adrian.f.aguilar@gmail.com

Environmental governance analysis for REDD+ implementation in the municipality of Cachoeiras de Macacu, Brazil.

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