Seminar: Sociale dimensioner af REDD

TIME: Monday, 11 June, 9.00 – 16.30

VENUE: Auditorium A2-70.03, Thorvaldsensvej 40, Frederiksberg C

REDD is Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries.

Program
9.00: Coffee and registration

9.30: Welcome Jens Friis Lund/Maya Sepehri

TIME: Monday, 11 June, 9.00 – 16.30

VENUE: Auditorium A2-70.03, Thorvaldsensvej 40, Frederiksberg C

REDD is Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries.

Program
9.00: Coffee and registration

9.30: Welcome Jens Friis Lund/Maya Sepehri

9.45 Key note presentation: Jesse Ribot (University of Illinois): Social Protections on Environmental Protections: Making REDD an Emancipatory Project

10.30: Presentations part I: Exploring the Social Dimensions of REDD+

– Riyong Kim Bakkegaard (KU SCIENCE) Payment for Avoided Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
– Thorsten Treue (KU SCIENCE) REDD+ and Rural Livelihoods in West Africa
– Ida Theilade (KU SCIENCE) REDD+ in Prey Long Cambodia – more than just Carbon
– Maya Sepehri (KU SCIENCE) “Double Inequity” of Deforestation and Forest Protection – REDD+ in Northern Cambodia

12.00: Standing lunch in “Marmorhallen”

13.00: Presentations part II: Local Perspectives on REDD+

– Steffen Dalsgaard and Marianne Pedersen (Aarhus Uni Anthropology) Of REDD and Rumours: Anticipating Policy in Papua New Guinea
– Moeko Saito-Jensen (KU SCIENCE) Can Indigenous People and their Nature Survive under the Huge Wave of Industrialization? Insights from East Kalimantan, Indonesia
– Michael Eilenberg and Thomas Mikkelsen (Aarhus Uni Anthropology) From Forest Destroyers to Forest Protectors: REDD Dilemmas in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

14.15: Coffee break

14.45: Presentations part III: Governance Dimensions and Policy Implications

– Susan Wangui Chomba (KU SCIENCE) Participatory Forest Governance and Climate Change Adaptation in Kenya
– Moeko Saito-Jensen (KU-SCIENCE) Putting Social Criteria in REDD Payment: Implications from Nepal’s REDD Pilot Project
– Rebecca Leigh Rutt (KU SCIENCE) The Logic of Local Institutional Choice in Climate Change Initiatives in Nepal

16.00-16.30: Closing discussion

For further information and to register, please contact Maya Sepehri [email protected] by 1 June