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Hot spots of confusion: contested policies and competing carbon claims in the peatlands of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Central Kalimantan has been selected as the primary REDD+ pilot in Indonesia. In its peatlands expectations of payments for carbon emission reduction currently shape the discourse over natural resource management as a means of influencing policy and exercising power. Differ enttypes of actors use their own in terpretation of history, facts, rules and norms to support their claims . Shifting national policies have over the past decades shaped the distribution of power and actual use of peatland . Actions to reduce emissions will need to appreciate the institutional complexity.

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