ABSTRACT
The goal of this chapter is to review the role of land tenure with respect to REDD+ using the academic literature and REDD+ planning documents. Tenure issues are generally considered crucial to REDD+ implementation. For example, in his review on the economics of forests and climate change Eliasch (2008) stated that ‘[o]nly when property rights are secure, on paper and in practice, longer-term investments in sustainable management become worthwhile’. This is a key message of other chapters in this book, including that by Xu and Hyde on China’s forest reforms.
