Green capitalism, and the cultural poverty of constructing nature as service-provider

By S. Sullivan. 2009

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Book synopsis: Upsetting the Offset engages critically with the political economy of carbon markets. It presents a range of case studies and critiques from around the world, showing how the scam of carbon markets affects the lives of communities. But the book doesn’t stop there. It also presents a number of alternatives to carbon markets which enable communities to live in real low-carbon futures.

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The victims of unsustainability: a challenge to sustainable development goals (2016, background): “The points of criticism of commodification or economic capture approaches include objections from social justice and ecological justice (justice between species) approaches, as economic capture approach is blamed (1) for promoting social injustice as the hegemonic elites are still controlling a prof”
Banking Nature? The Spectacular Financialisation of Environmental Conservation (2013, background): “…effects of this restructuring range from so-called “green land grabs” for conservation (Fairhead, Leach and Scoones forthcoming) to the more subtle erasure of knowledges and values that are outside the logic of this financialising impetus (Berkes 1999; Ingold 2000; Sullivan 2009, 2010).”
Accumulation by Conservation (2014, background): “The shift was facilitated by the newfound conceptualisation of nature as an ‘environmental services provider’ (Sullivan 2009), promoting the idea that people removed from a particular resource still benefit from it and should, therefore, finance its conservation remotely.”
Life for Sale? The Politics of Lively Commodities (2013, background): “com); and critical questioning of and often-outright opposition to the idea of ‘selling nature to save it’ (McAfee, 1999) is also prevalent in the burgeoning literature on neoliberal forms of conservation (Buscher et al, 2012; Sullivan, 2009; 2013).”
Nature™ Inc.: Changes and Continuities in Neoliberal Conservation and Market‐based Environmental Policy (2012, unknown): “More recently, Sian Sullivan (2009) similarly argued that a non-animated, trademarked nature must be seen as a profound manifestation of ‘cultural poverty’ through the seeming incapacity to think of nature in anything but capitalist terms.”
The Militarisation and Marketisation of Nature: An Alternative Lens to ‘Climate-Conflict’ (2014, background): “Climate change and its associated ecological crises now provide new market opportunities that undergird the growth of the modern industrial economy.(83) In 1992, climate change and biodiversity loss were recognised around the world as critical issues, and paved the way for the United”
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change (2021, unknown): “Failure to involve IPLCs can ignore cultural links that commu - nities have with local ecosystems, as a source of livelihoods and identity (Srivastava & Mehta, 2017; Sullivan, 2009).”
Payments for ecosystem services as neoliberal conservation: (Reinterpreting) evidence from the Maloti-Drakensberg, South Africa (2012, background): “…related practices that aim to substitute social and political affairs by capitalist market dynamics in all facets of life, including conservation (for in-depth discussions, see, amongst others, Brockington et al. 2008; Büscher 2010, In press; Sullivan 2009; Fletcher, 2010; Büscher et al. In press).”
Market mechanism or subsidy in disguise? Governing payment for environmental services in Costa Rica (2012, background): “…of conservation can be viewed as elements, in part, of capital accumulation in their own right, seeking to commodify natural resources for economic return (e.g., Sullivan, 2006, 2009; Igoe and Brockington, 2007; Garland, 2008; Brockington et al., 2008; Büscher, 2010; Brockington and Duffy, 2010).”
Counterinsurgency for wind energy: the Bíi Hioxo wind park in Juchitán, Mexico (2018, background): “…(McAfee and Shapiro 2010; Shapiro-Garza 2013), arguably PES can serve a secondary purpose of rural pacification, putting aside the contentious notion of PES quantifying and constructing the natural environment as a ‘service provider’ commensurable with financial markets (Sullivan 2009, 2013).”