The Creation and Dissolution of Private Property in Forest Carbon: A Case Study from Papua New Guinea

Human Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 665-677

  Filer, Colin ^a   Wood, Michael ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon trade; Forest policy; Papua New Guinea; Property rights

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLUTION; EMISSIONS TRADING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; LANDOWNER; PROPERTY RIGHTS;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 84867490871     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-012-9531-2     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Anon. (2008). Papua Government Bans REDD NGOs and Carbon Traders: Sham of FCPF 'Readiness Plan' Exposed. REDD-Monitor, 15 November.
2. Appadurai, A. (ed.) (1986). The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
3. Babon, A. (2011). Snapshot of REDD+ in Papua New Guinea. Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor. Infobrief 40.
4. Barnett, T. E. (1992). Legal and administrative problems of forestry in Papua New Guinea. In Henningham, S., and May, R. J. (eds.), Resources, Development and Politics in the Pacific Islands. Crawford House Press, Bathurst (NSW).
5. Bell, J. (2009). Documenting Discontent: Struggles for Recognition in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea. Australian Journal of Anthropology 20(1): 28-47.
6. Bird, N., Wells, A., van Helden, F., and Turia, R. (2007). The Current Legal and Institutional Framework of the Forest Sector in Papua New Guinea. Overseas Development Institute, London.
7. 2e in Carbon Offsets. Antipode 43(3): 612-638.
8. Bumpus, A. G., and Liverman, D. M. (2008). Accumulation by Decarbonization and the Governance of Carbon Offsets. Economic Geography 84(2): 127-155.
9. Callick, R. (2009). The Rush is on for 'Sky Money': The Struggle Begins to Control the Immense Wealth Certain to Flow from Carbon Trading. Weekend Australian, 5 September.
10. MCA (Macquarie Capital Advisors Limited Ltd) (2008). Avoided Deforestation: Kamula Doso and Western Province. Unpublished report.
11. CCBA (Climate Community & Biodiversity Alliance) (2010). Kamula Doso Improved Forest Management Carbon Project: Comments Received by the CCBA During the Validation Audit. CCBA, Arlington.
12. Cleaver, F. (2002). Reinventing Institutions: Bricolage and the Social Embeddedness of Natural Resource Management. European Journal of Development Research 14(2): 11-30.
13. Cleaver, F. (2007). Understanding Agency in Collective Action. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 8(2): 223-244.
14. Cuccaro, A. (2008). Funding Tree Kangaroo Habitat Protection and Community Development through the Carbon Offset Market. Masters Thesis. University of Washington, Seattle.
15. Dyer, N., and Counsell, S. (2010). McREDD: How McKinsey 'Cost-Curves' are Distorting REDD. Rainforest Foundation, London.
16. Filer, C. (1998). Loggers, Donors and Resource Owners. International Institute for Environment and Development, London.
17. Filer, C. (2000). The Thin Green Line: World Bank Leverage and Forest Policy Reform in Papua New Guinea. Australian National University, Canberra.
18. Filer, C. (2004). The knowledge of indigenous desire: disintegrating conservation and development in Papua New Guinea. In Bicker, A., Sillitoe, P., and Pottier, J. (eds.), Development and Local Knowledge: New Approaches to Issues in Natural Resources Management, Conservation and Agriculture. Routledge, London.
19. Filer, C. (2010). The Impacts of Rural Industry on the Native Forests of Papua New Guinea. Pacific Economic Bulletin 25(3): 135-153.
20. Filer, C. (2011). The Political Construction of a Land Grab in Papua New Guinea. Australian National University, Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra (READ Pacific Discussion Paper 1).
21. Filer, C. (2012). Why Green Grabs Don't Work in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Peasant Studies 39(2): 599-617.
22. GPNG (Government of Papua New Guinea) (1991). National Forest Policy. PNG Ministry of Forests, Hohola.
23. GPNG (Government of Papua New Guinea) (2001). Kamula Doso (Western Province). PNG Independent Forestry Review Team, Port Moresby (Individual Project Review Report 16).
24. GPNG (Government of Papua New Guinea) (2002). Investigation into a Decision of the National Forest Board to Award Kamula Doso to Wawoi Guavi Timber Company (a Subsidiary of Rimbunan Hijau) as an Extension to the Wawoi Guavi Timber Resource Permit: Final Report. Ombudsman Commission of PNG, Port Moresby.
25. GPNG (Government of Papua New Guinea) (2010a). Climate-Compatible Development for Papua New Guinea. PNG Department of Environment and Conservation, Port Moresby.
26. GPNG (Government of Papua New Guinea) (2010b). Interim Action Plan for Climate-Compatible Development. PNG Office of Climate Change and Development, Port Moresby.
27. GPNG (Government of Papua New Guinea) (2011a). Commission of Inquiry into SABL: Transcript of Proceedings, 21 November 2011. Department of Prime Minister & NEC, Waigani.
28. GPNG (Government of Papua New Guinea) (2011b). Commission of Inquiry into SABL: Transcript of Proceedings, 22 November 2011. Department of Prime Minister & NEC, Waigani.
29. GPNG (Government of Papua New Guinea) and World Bank (2010). Framework for the National Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan. GPNG and World Bank, Port Moresby.
30. Greenpeace (2011). Bad Influence: How McKinsey-Inspired Plans Lead to Rainforest Destruction. Greenpeace International, Amsterdam.
31. Gridneff, I. (2009). Yasause Blames Stolen 'Sample Documents'. PNG Post-Courier, 16 June.
32. Howes, S. (2009). Cheap But Not Easy: The Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Papua New Guinea. Pacific Economic Bulletin 24(1): 130-143.
33. Kosoy, N., and Corbera, E. (2010). Payments for Ecosystem Services as Commodity Fetishism. Ecological Economics 69: 1228-1236.
34. Laepa, C. (2011). Carbon Trade Deal Terminated. PNG Post-Courier, 7 February.
35. Lang, C. (2009a). PNG Update: Yasause Suspended, Dodgy Carbon Credits and Carbon Ripoffs. REDD-Monitor, 2 July.
36. Lang, C. (2009b) Kevin Conrad on REDD, Irregularities and Carbon Cowboys in PNG. REDD-Monitor, 9 July.
37. Lang, C. (2009c). More Questions than Answers on Carbon Trading in PNG. REDD-Monitor, 11 September.
38. Lang, C. (2010). McKinsey's REDD Plans in Papua New Guinea: Nice Work if You Can Get It. REDD-Monitor, 7 October.
39. Lattas, A. (2011). Logging, Violence and Pleasure: Neoliberalism, Civil Society and Corporate Governance in West New Britain. Oceania 81(1): 88-107.
40. Leggett, M. (2009). Selim Win Bilong Yumi: The Social Dimensions of Carbon Forestry in Papua New Guinea. Masters Thesis. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh.
41. Leggett, M., and Lovell, H. (2012). Community Perceptions of REDD+: A Case Study from Papua New Guinea. Climate Policy 12(1): 115-134.
42. Melick, D. (2008). On-The Ground Role of NGOs with Emerging Carbon Market Issues: Is the REDD Emperor Actually Wearing any Clothes? Paper presented to seminar on 'Challenges to the National Implementation of Activities to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)', Australian National University, Canberra, 18 June 2008.
43. Melick, D. (2010). Credibility of REDD and Experiences from Papua New Guinea. Conservation Biology 24(2): 359-361.
44. Pearse, R. (2012). Mapping REDD in the Asia-Pacific: Governance, Marketisation and Contention. Ephemera 12(1/2): 181-205.
45. Ribot, R., and Peluso, N. (2003). A Theory of Access. Rural Sociology 68(2): 153-181.
46. Rose, C. (1994). Property and Persuasion: Essays on the History, Theory, and Rhetoric of Ownership. Westview Press, Boulder.
47. Ruhfus, J. (2009) Carbon Cowboys: People & Power Investigates Fake Carbon Offset Certificates Being Sold in Papua New Guinea. Al Jazeera, 9 December.
48. Sikor, T., and Lund, C. (2009). Access and Property: A Question of Power and Authority. Development and Change 40(1): 1-22.
49. Sikor, T., Stahl, J., Enters, T., Ribot, J., Singh, N., Sunderlin, W., and Wollenberg, L. (2010). REDD-Plus, Forest People's Rights and Nested Climate Governance. Global Environmental Change 20(3): 423-425.
50. Simpson, G. (1997). 'Get what you can while you can': The landowner-government relationship in West New Britain. In Filer, C. (ed.), The Political Economy of Forest Management in Papua New Guinea. National Research Institute, Boroko.
51. Somare, M. (2009). Carbon Trading and Office of Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability. PNG Post-Courier, 3 August.
52. Strang, V., and Busse, M. (eds.) (2011). Ownership and Appropriation. Berg, Oxford.
53. Strathern, M. (1999). Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things. Athlone Press, London.
54. TTD (Tumu Timbers Development Limited) (2010). Kamula Doso Improved Forest Management Carbon Project. Draft report to Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance, Arlington.
55. UN-REDD (UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries) (2011). National Programme Document: Papua New Guinea. UN-REDD, Port Moresby.
56. Waima, K. (2011). Climate Change Ambassador in US to be Replaced. PNG Post-Courier, 18 August.
57. Wuri, J. G. (2011). Kiunga-Hiritano Highway gets OK. The National (PNG), 24 May.