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Abstract: In this paper I emphasise the financialisation of environmental conservation as 1. turning financiers to parameters a new frontier for investment, and 2. rewriting practice nonhuman worlds in terms banking financial categories. introduce broadly controlling impetus with relevance conservation. then note ways which spectacular investment is being opened. highlight draw assertions lucrative gains, combined notions geographical substitutability, creating tradable indicators health...

This paper explores the potential for an environmental justice framing to shed new light on conservation controversies. We argue that, in order make such progress, analysis will need provide a ‘difference‐friendly’ conception of and that this necessarily involve moving beyond dominant liberal conceptions distributional fairness. are largely welcoming global deployments distributive principles. However, we also explore dangers focusing distribution alone, questioning assumption positive...

Given a history in political ecology of challenging hegemonic "scientific" narratives concerning environmental problems, the current moment presents potent conundrum: how to (continue to) critically engage with change while confronting "populist" promotion "alternative facts." We ask ecologists might situate themselves vis-à-vis presently growing power contemporary authoritarian forms, highlighting latter operates through sociopolitical domains and beyond-human natures. argue for clear...

Contemporary market-based (i.e. neoliberal) 'green economy' approaches to environmental degradation emphasise exchanges whereby quantified units of harm are traded or 'offset' for compensating health. Also encouraged is a view that economic growth can be 'greened' through 'decoupling' value from material ecological realities. Such tend frame biophysical natures in terms aggregates, such as an 'aggregate natural capital rule' and 'net zero carbon.' Naturesbeyond-the-human thereby understood...

Abstract As argued recently in Forum for Development Studies, a 'back to the barriers' approach biodiversity conservation is again prevalent, after some two decades of emphasis on 'community-based' initiatives. This involves establishment and expansion national parks from which people are variously excluded. In this article, however, I suggest that community-based approaches such as Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) remain important, many ways simply constitute other side...

Biodiversity offsets are part of a new suite biodiversity conservation instruments designed to mitigate the impacts economic developments on species, habitats and ecosystems. Led by an international collaboration representatives from companies, financial institutions, governments non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Business Offsets Programme (BBOP) market-oriented Forest Trends group, has created global framework through which principles standards for being established. These enable...

Who gives a chicken's fart about the Garden of Eden and rural tranquillity improbable things like that?No one thinks that stuff any more.No believes in it.All we care is next pay packet, meal, gratification, party, football match, sensation. 1TRANSFORMATION In 1944, as Nazi Reich was drawing its final breaths, economic historian Karl Polanyi wrote The Great Transformation '[w]hat call land an element nature inextricably interwoven with man's [sic] institutions.To isolate it form market for...

1. The estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is the world's largest living reptile. It predominately inhabits freshwater and habitats, but widespread geographic distribution throughout oceanic islands of South-east Pacific suggests that individuals undertake sizeable ocean voyages. 2. Here we show adult C. porosus adopt behavioural strategies to utilise surface water currents during long-distance travel, enabling them move quickly efficiently over considerable distances. 3. We used...

This article identifies an emerging faultline in critical geography and political ecology scholarship by reviewing recent debates on three neoliberal environmental governance initiatives: Payments for Ecosystem Services, the United Nations programme Reducing Emissions from Deforestation Forest Degradation Developing Countries carbon-biodiversity offsetting. These approaches, we argue, are characterized varying degrees of contextual procedural – or superficial difference, meanwhile exhibiting...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider and compare different ways using numbers value aspects nature-beyond-the-human through case analysis ecological natural capital accounting practices in the UK that create standardised numerical-economic values for beyond-human natures. In addition, contrast underlying ontological ethical assumptions these arithmetical approaches with those associated Pythagorean nature-numbering fractal geometry. doing so, draw out distinctions between...

In response to perceived valuation problems giving rise global environmental crisis, ‘nature’ is being qualified, quantified and materialised as the new external(ised) ‘Nature-whole’ of ‘natural capital’. This paper problematises increasing legibility, through numbering (ac)counting practices, natural capital an apparently exterior ‘matter fact’ that can be leveraged financially. Interconnected policy technical texts, combined with observation academic participant in recent international...

SUMMARY Market-based strategies are promoted as neoliberal governance solutions to environmental problems, from local global scales. Tradable mitigation schemes proliferating. These include species banking, which enables payments for the purchase of credits awarded conserved areas offset development impacts on protected elsewhere. An analysis banks in USA through a survey data website www.SpeciesBanking.com (established ‘clearing house’ banking information) was complemented by questionnaire...

This paper emphasizes the importance of researcher position and reflexivity for professionals in ecological development sciences. We draw on critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze a selection scientific papers written by Namibian Community-based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) their relationships with public regarding this conservation program. These mainly show "success" whilst disregarding "failure" elements program that elsewhere are highly criticized (especially trophy hunting...

This essay considers modes of engagement in contemporary times ‘meltdown’. Written 2022, prior to the recent escalation Israel-Palestine-Lebanon conflict Middle East, it engages with Russia’s invasion Ukraine, and varied threats nuclear mobilization this context: from damage Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power station, launches attack. In doing so, lethal competitive links between fossil fuel economies are foregrounded, reminding us Cold War when was annihilation, rather than climate change, that...