Forests 2011, 2(1), 301-342; doi:10.3390/f2010301
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Rights to Land, Forests and Carbon in REDD+: Insights from Mexico, Brazil and Costa Rica

Esteve Corbera 1,2,* email, Manuel Estrada 3 email, Peter May 4 email, Guillermo Navarro 5 email and Pablo Pacheco 6 email
1 Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain 2 School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK 3 Murcia, 30011, Spain 4 Department of Development, Agriculture and Society, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Av. Presidente Vargas, 417 - 9o andar, 20071-003 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 5 Universidad Earth, Guácimo de Limón, 442-1000, Costa Rica 6 Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Jalan CIFOR, Situ Gede, Bogor, 16115, Indonesia
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Received: 14 November 2010; in revised form: 8 February 2011 / Accepted: 17 February 2011 / Published: 1 March 2011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forest Governance and REDD: Challenges for Policies and Markets in Latin America)
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Abstract: Land tenure and carbon rights constitute critical issues to take into account in achieving emission reductions, ensuring transparent benefit sharing and determining non-permanence (or non-compliance) liabilities in the context of REDD+ strategies and projects. This is so because tenure systems influence who becomes involved in efforts to avoid deforestation and improve forest management, and that land tenure, carbon rights and liabilities may be linked or divorced with implications for rural development. This paper explores these issues by looking at tenure regimes and carbon rights issues in Mexico, Brazil and Costa Rica. It is effectively shown that complex bundles of rights over forest resources have distinct implications for REDD+ design and implementation, and that REDD+ strategies in selected countries have to date failed in procedurally addressing land-use conflicts and carbon rights entitlements and liabilities.
Keywords: REDD+; carbon; forests; property rights; Latin America

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Corbera, E.; Estrada, M.; May, P.; Navarro, G.; Pacheco, P. Rights to Land, Forests and Carbon in REDD+: Insights from Mexico, Brazil and Costa Rica. Forests 2011, 2, 301-342.

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Corbera E, Estrada M, May P, Navarro G, Pacheco P. Rights to Land, Forests and Carbon in REDD+: Insights from Mexico, Brazil and Costa Rica. Forests. 2011; 2(1):301-342.

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Corbera, Esteve; Estrada, Manuel; May, Peter; Navarro, Guillermo; Pacheco, Pablo. 2011. "Rights to Land, Forests and Carbon in REDD+: Insights from Mexico, Brazil and Costa Rica." Forests 2, no. 1: 301-342.

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