Hemant Ojha

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction and highlight how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability.

TL;DR: The authors provide a synthesis of recent scholarship on social safeguards and co-benefits in REDD+ with a focus on debates on: first, tenure security, and second, effective participation of local communities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors critique the ways in which the politics of representation and climate science are framed and pursued in the process of climate policy development, and contribute to an understanding of the relative effectiveness of globally framed, generic policy mechanisms in vulnerable and politically volatile contexts.

TL;DR: The Community Forestry Program in Nepal as mentioned in this paper is a global innovation in participatory environmental governance that encompasses well-defined policies, institutions, and practices to address the twin goals of forest conservation and poverty reduction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the possibility and challenges of deliberative governance, taking the case of community forestry in Nepal, and identify patterns of symbolic violence that limit the possibility of deliberation: creating boundaries in social field, cultivating internalised beliefs among governance actors, and sustaining unequal access to symbolic capital.