Strengthening inter-disciplinary and inter-ideological collaboration on REDD: A cultural theory approach

摘要: Abstract The United Nations’ REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) mechanism has provoked sharply divergent assessments in the academic community. This paper employs Cultural Theory to investigate how a sample of scholars different disciplinary backgrounds ideological stances evaluate REDD, extent which these sampled reach out other disciplines ideologies formulate policy solutions. A three groups (ecological/political economics, environmental sciences, anthropology) was analysed terms implied stance author (‘hierarchist,’ ‘individualist,’ ‘egalitarian’) author’s prescriptions offered concessions than authors own. Sampled ecological/political economics sciences shared hierarchist orientation, were willing make individualists but not egalitarians. anthropology an egalitarian unwilling significant any style. Disagreements on issues hegemony eco-colonialism impeded theoretically possible collaboration between formulating suitably “clumsy” policies that satisfy multiple value systems. shows could be used as effective heuristic device policy-making processes for identifying some divergences underlie disagreements finding spaces concession this hotly contested areas policy.