Browsing Public Resources by Subject "market-based conservation"
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Business, Biodiversity and New 'Fields' of Conservation: The World Conservation Congress and the Renegotiation of Organisational Order
(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) ... -
Chapter Two: Orchestrating Nature: Ethnographies of Nature Inc.
(Orchestrating Nature, 2014)In this chapter we combine the theoretical lens of virtualism with the empirical object of a new multilateral project (TEEB) and the physical site and instance of the COP10 to explore how processes of performance, ... -
Enclosing the Global Commons: The Convention on Biological Diversity and Green Grabbing
(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 ... -
Environmental Governance in Motion: Practices of Assemblage and the Political Performativity of Economistic Conservation
(World Development, 2019)This article critically explores the dynamic, constitutive processes that animate economistic conservation and sustainable development as an expression of governance-beyond-the-state. I focus attention on governance in ... -
Fields of green: Corporate sustainability and the production of economistic environmental governance
(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
(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
(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, ... -
NTFP and REDD at the Fourth World Conservation Congress: What is In and What is Not
(Conservation and Society, 2010)While the Fourth World Conservation Congress (WCC) was effective in bringing together different participants to discuss climate change, the discussion of potential mitigation mechanisms was dominated by the Reducing Emissions ... -
Orchestrating Consent: Post-politics and Intensification of NatureTM Inc. at the 2012 World Conservation Congress
(Conservation and Society, 2014)This article reports on the results of a collaborative event ethnography (CEE) conducted at the 2012 World Conservation Congress (WCC) on Jeju Island, South Korea. The WCC is organised every four years by the International ... -
Seizing Center Stage: Ecosystem Service, Live, at the Convention on Biological Diversity!
(Human Geography, 2013)Over the past decade, the concept of ecosystem services has become a central guiding framework for environmental conservation. Techniques of valuation, payments to protect ecosystem services, and efforts to put a price on ... -
Setting the Stage for New Global Knowledge: Science, Economics, and Indigenous Knowledge in 'The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity' at the Fourth World Conservation Congress
(Conservation and Society, 2010)Global environmental knowledge underwrites the authority of international institutions charged with managing climate change, biodiversity loss and other looming environmental problems. While numerous studies show how global ... -
TEEB Begins Now': A Virtual Moment in the Production of Natural Capital
(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
(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 ... -
The Receiving End of Reform: Everyday Responses to Neoliberalisation in Southeastern Mexico
(Antipode, 2010)This article builds upon the literature on neoliberalism and environment as well as studies on community forestry by examining the creative accommodations that rural producers have made in navigating Mexico’s neoliberal ...