Browsing Faculty -- Research, Data, Projects, and Papers by Author "Kenneth Iain MacDonald"
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Business, Biodiversity and New 'Fields' of Conservation: The World Conservation Congress and the Renegotiation of Organisational Order
Kenneth Iain MacDonald (Conservation and Society, 2010)Biodiversity conservation, in practise, is defined through the institutionalised association of individuals, organisations, institutions, bodies of knowledge and interests. Events like the World Conservation Congress (WCC) ... -
Enclosing the Global Commons: The Convention on Biological Diversity and Green Grabbing
Catherine Corson; Kenneth Iain MacDonald (The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2012)‘Green grabs,’ or the expropriation of land or resources for environmental purposes, constitute an important component of the current global land grab explosion. We argue that international environmental institutions are ... -
Fields of green: Corporate sustainability and the production of economistic environmental governance
Peter R Wilshusen; Kenneth Iain MacDonald (Environment and Planning A, 2017)This article critically examines the production of economistic fields of environmental governance in the context of global summits like Rioþ20. It focuses on the constitutive work performed by diverse actors in extending ... -
Grabbing ‘Green’: Cynical Reason, Instrumental Ethics and the Production of ‘The Green Economy
Kenneth Iain MacDonald (Human Geography, 2013)This paper traces the institutionalization of Environmentalism as a pre-condition for the production of ‘The Green Economy,’ particularly the containment of the oppositional possibilities of an environmentalist politics ... -
Grabbing “Green”: Markets, Environmental Governance and the Materialization of Natural Capital
Catherine Corson; Kenneth Iain MacDonald; Benjamin Neimark (Human Geography, 2013)Over the past two decades, the incorporation of market logics into environment and conservation policy has led to a reconceptualization of “nature.” Resulting constructs like ecosystem services and biodiversity derivatives, ... -
Nature for Money: The Configuration of Transnational Institutional Space for Environmental Governance (The Gloss of Harmony: The Politics of Policy-Making in Multilateral Organisations.)
Kenneth Iain MacDonald (London: Pluto Press, 2014)In this chapter I link the translocal spaces and actors involved in a seemingly simple conservation project in northern Pakistan to stress that a focus on the scalar dimensions of power relations is integral to understanding ... -
TEEB Begins Now': A Virtual Moment in the Production of Natural Capital
Kenneth Iain MacDonald; Catherine Corson (Development and Change, 2012)This article uses theories of virtualism to analyse the role of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) project in the production of natural capital. Presented at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the ... -
The Devil is in the (Bio)diversity: Private Sector "Engagement" and the Restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation
Kenneth Iain MacDonald (Antipode, 2010)Intensified relations between biodiversity conservation organizations and privatesector actors are analyzed through a historical perspective that positions biodiversity conservation as an organized political project. Within ...