Arrested Development? The Promises and Paradoxes of “Selling Nature to Save It”

By J. Dempsey, Daniel Suarez. 2016

174 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Bram Büscher
2. R. Fletcher
3. Nate Millington
4. Jathan Sadowski
5. Patrick Bigger

In Global and Planetary Change

1. R. Fletcher
2. Bram Büscher
3. Jathan Sadowski
4. Patrick Bigger
5. E. Corbera

Citations in the corpus

• “Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay (2019, unknown): “For understandable reasons, scholars commonly focus on capital ’ s pursuit of new or expanded forms of value production in response to crisis, as witnessed for example in discussions on market environmentalism (Brockington and Duffy 2010; Castree 2008; Dempsey and Chiu Suarez 2016; Lohmann 2011).”
• The PES Conceit: Revisiting the Relationship between Payments for Environmental Services and Neoliberal Conservation (2017, background): “Over a decade later, we can conclude that in practice PES has indeed become ‘old wine in new bottles’ since substantial private financing has not been forthcoming and in any event does not work according to the ideal(ized) market model (Dempsey and Suarez 2016; Fletcher et al. 2016).”
• The Internet of Landlords: Digital Platforms and New Mechanisms of Rentier Capitalism (2020, background): “More speci fi cally, much of this work has focused on understanding the multiplicity of ways that nature and/or conservation are (becoming) thoroughly fi nancialised (Bryant 2018; Dempsey and Suarez 2016; Sullivan 2013).”
• Decoupling: A Key Fantasy of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (2017, unknown): “We are observing, for example, how difficult it is to find profitable avenues for investment in pro-poor environmental conservation initiatives despite two decades of experimentation (Dempsey & Suarez, 2016).”
• Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change (2021, unknown): “This problem is exacerbated by the misuse of the concept of NbS as a quick ‘ecological fix’ for the crisis generated by unsus - tainable patterns of production and consumption (Castree, 2008; Dempsey & Suarez, 2016).”
• Getting soaked? Climate crisis, adaptation finance, and racialized austerity (2020, background): “This narrative has faced increasing push-back in recent years, with authors like Dempsey and Suarez (2016), Christophers (2015), and Ouma (2015), questioning the extent to which nature is meaningfully ‘‘financialized,’’ or indeed the transformativepotential ofgreenfinance ingeneral.”