Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projets across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere. Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa examines how these projects are unfolding and interacting with longer intervention histories, their effects and who is gaining and losing.New case studies cover a wide range of African ecologies, project types and national political-economic contexts. The book asks : what differencedoescarbon make? What political and ecological dynamics are unleashed by these new commodified, marketized approches, and how are local forest users experiencing and responding to them? It thus provides a rich and compelling account of how and why carbon conflicts are emerging, and how they might be avoided in future.

Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projets across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere. Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa examines how these projects are unfolding and interacting with longer intervention histories, their effects and who is gaining and losing.New case studies cover a wide range of African ecologies, project types and national political-economic contexts. The book asks : what differencedoescarbon make? What political and ecological dynamics are unleashed by these new commodified, marketized approches, and how are local forest users experiencing and responding to them? It thus provides a rich and compelling account of how and why carbon conflicts are emerging, and how they might be avoided in future.