The neoliberalization of ecosystem services: wetland mitigation banking and problems in environmental governance

By M. Robertson. 2004

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Political Science and International Relations

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Faustian bargains? Restoration realities in the context of biodiversity offset policies (2012, methodology): “, 2007), but in the absence of an accepted method, losses and gains are primarily accounted for in terms of area of wetland and associated vegetation (Robertson, 2004).”
Rethinking biodiversity: from goods and services to “living with” (2013, background): “It requires knowledge that is not only scientifically grounded but also usable and relevant, which currently means that it needs to reflect the political priorities of the Ecosystem Services discourse (Robertson 2004).”
Payments for ecosystem services as commodity fetishism (2010, background): “Basedon thewetlandbankingsystem in theUnitedStates, Robertson shows that wetlands commodification involves a simplification of ecological relations, allowing for example to equate the value of a wetland in one place to the same type of ecosystem elsewhere (Robertson, 2004).”
Market Masquerades: Uncovering the Politics of Community-level Payments for Environmental Services in Cambodia (2012, background): “In this context, PES is conventionally analysed as a product of neoliberal thinking about the ability of markets to solve environmental problems (Büscher, forthcoming; Robertson, 2004).”
Rethinking ecosystem services to better address and navigate cultural values (2012, background): “…and others concerned with inappropriate assumptions of substitutability (e.g., Gowdy, 2001) and with diverse kinds of values (e.g., Norgaard, 2010; Norton and Noonan, 2007; Randall, 2002); and critical theorists concerned with the privatization and commodification of nature (Robertson, 2004).”
The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, background): “A key third example of the neoliberal remaking of knowledge political economies concerns the commercialization of science and the academy, particularly in the USA and UK, but increasingly also across the rest of the world.”
A socioecological fix to capitalist crisis and climate change? The possibilities and limits of renewable energy (2015, background): “…commodification of “ecosystem services”— have in fact been central to efforts to restore a flagging rate of accumulation by finding a new sort of “external,” generative domain for capital to appropriate and capitalize (see, e.g. Cooper, 2008; Harvey, 2014: 235; Robertson, 2004; Sunder Rajan, 2006).”
Payments for environmental services as neoliberal market-based forest conservation in Vietnam: Panacea or problem? (2012, background): “Among the many examples of PES now being implemented are wetland banking in Europe and the US (Robertson, 2004), upstream communities being paid to protect forests by downstream urban water users (Porras et al., 2008), transfers between electricity companies generating power from hydroelectricity…”
Offsetting Benefits? Analyzing Access to Forest Carbon (2010, background): “The process of individuation is thus accompanied by `functional and spatial abstraction', which consist of assimilating the qualitative specificity of any individualized thing to the qualitative homogeneity of a broader type of process (Castree, 2003; Robertson, 2000; 2004).”
The Environmentalism of the Poor revisited: : Territory and place in disconnected glocal struggles (2014, background): “However, such mechanisms have become increasingly criticized for tackling environmental problems through a pure market logic (Gómez-Baggethun et al., 2010; Robertson, 2004).”