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"This book provides a comprehensive socio-legal examination of how global efforts to fight climate change by reducing carbon emissions in the forestry sector (known as REDD+) have affected the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in developing countries. Grounded in extensive qualitative empirical research conducted globally, the book shows that the transnational legal process for REDD+ has created both challenges and unexpected opportunities for the recognition and protection of indigenous and community rights. It shows that pursuit of REDD+ has resulted in important variations in how human rights standards are understood and applied across multiple sites of law, with mixed results for indigenous peoples and local communities. With its provocative findings, interdisciplinary research design, and analytical framework, this book will make a valuable contribution to the study of the influence of transnational legal processes in a globalizing world."

This article aims to understand the complex relationship between transnational pathways of policy influence and strategies of domestic policy entrepreneurship in the pursuit of REDD+ in developing countries. Since 2007, a complex governance arrangement exerting influence through the provision of international rules, norms, markets, knowledge, and material assistance has supported the diffusion of REDD+ policies around the world. These transnational pathways of influence have played an important role in the launch of REDD+ policy-making processes at the domestic level. Indeed, over 60 developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have initiated multi-year programmes of policy reform, research, and capacity-building that aim to lay the groundwork for the implementation of REDD+. However, there is emerging evidence that the nature of policy change associated with these REDD+ policy efforts ultimately depends on the mediating influence of domestic factors. This article offers an analytical framework that focuses on whether and how domestic policy actors can seize the opportunities provided by transnational policy pathways for REDD+ to challenge or reinforce the status quo in the governance of forests and related sectors.

"Intergenerationelle Gerechtigkeit verlangt nicht nur bestmögliche Politik und Praxis, sondern auch die Vorbeugung und Unterbindung schädlicher und moralisch verwerflicher menschlicher Verhaltensweisen, welche schwerwiegende Auswirkungen auf die langfristige Gesundheit, die Sicherheit und die Überlebensgrundlagen von Gruppen von Individuen haben. Während viele internationale Straftaten indirekte Folgen für das Wohlergehen gegenwärtiger und zukünftiger Generationen haben, kann man nicht sagen, dass das derzeit bestehende Strafrecht geeignet ist, intergenerationelle Rechte direkt und eindeutig zu schützen. Die Entwicklung eines neuen Typs von internationalen Straftaten, des Verbrechens gegenüber künftigen Generationen, könnte ein vielversprechender Weg sein, intergenerationelle Gerechtigkeit herzustellen. Mit solch einem Verbrechen wären Handlungen oder Verhaltensweisen strafbar, durch die bestehendes internationales
Recht in Bezug auf wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Rechte sowie in Bezug auf die Umwelt ernsthaft verletzt wird." (Autorenreferat)