Related projects
Below are projects that some of our project members are part of and/or have collaborated with:
FOREQUAL – The forestry sector as an inequality machine? Agents, agreements and global politics of trade and investment in the Congo Basin
Forests and forestlands in the tropics are supposed to serve a multitude of global and domestic interests, including development, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. All these interests have explicit assumptions in common over their positive contribution to the economic wellbeing and social equality of society. However, who – and whose society – benefits from ongoing deforestation and forest concessions in the tropics? The research project aims to answer this question by analyzing global and historic data to gain an understanding of the inequalities embedded in trade and investment patterns in relation to forests and forestland in the Global South, and the mechanisms that produce and reproduce these inequalities.
BridgingVALUES aims to inform conservation policies and practices towards more equitable and effective governance by generating a better understanding of 1) the interdependencies and feedbacks between EU (and global) flows, and local governance of PAs, and 2) how these can in turn impact biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES), their values, social equity and governance in six case studies in the EU and the Global South.
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