Banking Nature? The Spectacular Financialisation of Environmental Conservation

By S. Sullivan. 2013

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Accumulation by securitization: commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers (2016, background): “…closely related to this paper, the phenomenon of land grabbing (Borras and Franco, 2012; Borras et al., 2012; Hall, 2013; White et al., 2012), along with a variety of neoliberal conservation practices (Benjaminsen and Bryceson, 2012; Corson and MacDonald, 2012; Leach et al., 2012; Sullivan, 2013).”
The Environmentalism of the Poor revisited: : Territory and place in disconnected glocal struggles (2014, background): “Investments frontiers for conservation are indeed opening throughout the world under the premise that such investments can bring highly lucrative gains (Sullivan, 2013).”
Green economy and carbon markets for conservation and development: a critical view (2016, background): “…benefit from transnational carbon markets include banks, commodity trading firms, oil and power companies, energy speculators, and pension, hedge, and private-equity funds that invest in carbon credits, as well as firms established specifically to broker the new carbon commodity (Sullivan 2013).”
Virtual nature, violent accumulation: The ‘spectacular failure’ of carbon offsetting at a Ugandan National Park (2014, background): “Through conservation websites and blogs, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, and the integration of conservation finance into everyday consumptive practices (Igoe, 2013), consumers increasingly experience nature itself as a spectacle, or as a series of consumable images and r”
The Politics of Sustainability and Development (2016, background): “Markets for offsets (of carbon, biodiversity, habitats, even species) have been created (112, 113), and payments for ecosystem services schemes have been generated (see above).”
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).”
Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia (2021, background): “The geographical literature has been critical of using financial mechanisms to resolve environmental and climate problems as such tools often serve as facades for financial and political benefits while making limited progress on environment and climate issues (Bracking, 2015; Sullivan, 2013).”
The Militarisation and Marketisation of Nature: An Alternative Lens to ‘Climate-Conflict’ (2014, background): “Sullivan has distinguished a four-step process to construct nature as a ‘service provider’ in order to be appropriated into global finance.(88) First, ‘nature work’ constructs ecosystems as a marketable element for profit, transforming the ‘earth into a corporation’ that provides goods and services ”