Routledge, August 2018, A Critical Approach to Climate Change Adaption, Chapter III.8
Politicising climate change at Sumatra’s oil palm frontier
]onas Hein and Yvonne Kunz
Introduction
When visiting villages in Jambi province on the island of Sumatra in 2013, peasants told us that the Indonesian Government had recently proclaimed their forests to be ‘lungs of the earth’. This phrase is the local interpretation of a recent concept developed by economists and conservationists within the context ... read more