Climate change policies, land grabbing and conflict: perspectives from Southeast Asia

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Notes on contributors

Esteve Corbera is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Carol Hunsberger is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Chayan Vaddhanaphuti is the Director of the Regional Centre for Social Science and Sustainable Development and Centre for Ethnic Studies and Development at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

Notes

1. Flex crops can be used to produce multiple products, such as food, feed, fuel or commercial and industrial products.

2. The acronyms REDD and REDD+ refer to the “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation” mechanism under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is an instrument in the 2007 Kyoto Protocol that extended the UNFCCC.

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Funding

This special issue was partly supported by the project “MOSAIC – Climate change mitigation policies, land grabbing and conflict in fragile states: understanding intersections, exploring transformations in Myanmar and Cambodia”, financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and by the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DfID), grant number W 07.68.416. The Ford Foundation provided funding for the conference organised by the Regional Centre for Sustainable Development of Chiang Mai University and BICAS (“BRICS Initiative for Critical Agrarian Studies”) in June 2015, at which drafts of the issue’s articles were presented. Esteve Corbera acknowledges the support of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona–Banco de Santander Talent Retention Programme and of a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (PCIG09-GA-2011-294234), and notes that this work is contributing to the ICTA-UAB “Unit of Excellence” (MinECo, MDM2015-0552).