1st Edition

Climate Mitigation in the Land Sector of the Global South Making it Work for People and Planet

By Michael I. Brown Copyright 2026
236 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book challenges dominant, top-down approaches to climate mitigation in the land sector, arguing that without genuine negotiation, recognized land rights, and tailored capacity building for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs), most solutions will inevitably fail or do harm. With civil society increasingly acting as a driving force for transparency and accountability around the... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Boxes

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Disconnects Between Evidence and Action in Land-Sector Climate Mitigation

Chapter 2: The Polarized Paradigm – Credibility, Control, and the Breakdown of Feasible Climate Action

Chapter 3: Nature-Based Solutions – Rhetoric, Reality, and Reform

Chapter 4: The Foundations of Failure – Tenure Insecurity, Governance Breakdown, and the Crisis of Climate Legitimacy

Chapter 5: Climate Mitigation Finance to the Global South

Chapter 6: Integration and Stakeholder Engagement in Climate Mitigation: A Logical Framework for a Paradigm Shift 

Chapter 7: Shifting From Crisis to Credibility: Negotiated Governance in Climate Mitigation

Index

 

 

 

Biography

Michael I. Brown is a natural resources management, community conservation, sustainable agriculture, and resiliency specialist and author, with 40 years of experience designing, implementing, and evaluating projects in multiple sectors in more than 30 countries.