DOI: 10.1002/wcc.367
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84945180128
论文题名: What is carbon? Conceptualising carbon and capabilities in the context of community sequestration projects in the global South
作者: Twyman C ; , Smith T ; A ; , Arnall A
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2015
卷: 6, 期: 6 起始页码: 627
结束页码: 641
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Carbon capture
; Chemical elements
; Complex networks
; Emission control
; Forestry
; Abstract notions
; Carbon sequestration
; Carbon trading
; Environmental change
; Local populations
; Review papers
; Specific values
; Climate change
; carbon sequestration
; conceptual framework
; emissions trading
; environmental change
; environmental policy
; market conditions
; neoliberalism
英文摘要: Carbon has been described as a 'surreal commodity.' While carbon trading, storage, sequestration, and emissions have become a part of the contemporary climate lexicon, how carbon is understood, valued, and interpreted by actors responsible for implementing carbon sequestration projects is still unclear. In this review paper, we are concerned with how carbon has come to take on a range of meanings. In particular, we appraise what is known about the situated meanings that people involved in delivering, and participating in, carbon sequestration projects in the global South assign to this complex element. There has been some reflection on the new meanings conferred on carbon via the neoliberal processes of marketisation and on how these processes interact with historical and contemporary narratives of environmental change. But less is known about how these meanings are (re)produced and (re)interpreted locally. We review how carbon has been defined both as a chemical element and as a tradable, marketable commodity. We discuss the implications these global meanings might have for situated understandings, particularly linked to climate change narratives, among communities in the global South. We consider how the concept of carbon capabilities, alongside theoretical notions of networks, assemblages, and local knowledges of the environment and nature, might be useful in beginning to understand how communities engage with abstract notions of carbon. We discuss the implications of specific values attributed to carbon, and therefore to different ecologies, for wider conceptualizations of how nature is valued, and climate is understood. We review in particular how this may impact on community interactions with carbon sequestration projects. Knowing more about how people understand, value, and know carbon allows policies to be better informed and practices more effectively targeted at engaging local populations meaningfully in carbon-related projects. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76262
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作者单位: Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom; School of Planning and Geography, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom; School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Twyman C,, Smith T,A,et al. What is carbon? Conceptualising carbon and capabilities in the context of community sequestration projects in the global South[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2015-01-01,6(6)