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SUMMARY:Where do ideas about conservation come from? The story of how a be
 ach conversation became REDD+  - Albert Arhin (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Ritika Kapur
DESCRIPTION:The past two decades or so have witnessed emergence of ‘new
 ’ ideas and concepts aimed to protect the environment. These include but
  not limited to concepts such ecotourism\, carbon offsetting\, debt-for-na
 ture swaps\, ICDPs\, payment for ecosystem services\, CBNRM and many more.
  Where do these ideas come from? And how do they become popular? Political
  ecologists have played an important role in answering these questions by 
 tracing the history of such ideas and how they come to achieve discursive 
 power. This presentation\, which is about the (re)emergence of the policy 
 mechanism of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+)
 \, contributes to this field of knowledge. In this presentation\, I infuse
  the field of political ecology with insights from Science and Technologic
 al Studies (STS) to tell the story of how a beach conversation between two
  people about a difficulty of a World Bank loan propelled the spread of wh
 at has now become known as REDD+ in environmental governance. In particula
 r\, I trace the rise of REDD+ into mainstream global environmental policy 
 arena with the attention to some of the actors\, the storylines\, the poli
 tics and the technologies that have facilitated the popularity of this mec
 hanism as “the last chance of saving tropical forests” (Boyd\, 2010: 8
 45). I conclude by reflecting on how a combination of STS and political ec
 ology as analytical lens can be a useful way of tracing the origins of the
  spread of environmental policy ideas. 
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