Selling out on nature

By D. McCauley. Nature, 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go? (2017, background): “Some have argued (Thompson and Barton, 1994; McCauley, 2006), that the concept of ecosystem services represents a very ‘anthropocentric’, instrumental, or utilitarian view of nature – that nature only exists to ‘service’ humans.”
Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground (2016, background): “Frontiers in Environmental Science | www.frontiersin.org 22 June 2016 | Volume 4 | Article 41 This notion of intrinsic value has raised considerable controversy (More et al., 1996; Attfield, 1998; McCauley, 2006; Vucetich et al., 2015).”
Multi-functional landscapes in semi arid environments: implications for biodiversity and ecosystem services (2010, background): “Despite concerns around possible unintended negative consequences ( McCauley 2006; Redford and Adams 2009; Vira and Adams 2009) and limited congruence between biodiversity and ecosystem services (Chan et al. 2006; Egoh et al. 2009; Reyers et al. 2009), ecosystem based approaches have grown in numbe”
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Recent Instances for Debate (2013, background): “We side with the sceptics (McCauley 2006; Kosoy and Corbera 2010; Spangenberg and Settele 2010; Kallis et al. 2013) but we understand the logic of those who are keen to apply monetary valuation and payments for ecosystem services.”
Changes in the global value of ecosystem services (2014, neutral): “There has been an on-going debate about what some see as the “commodification” of nature that this approach supposedly implies (Costanza, 2006; McCauley, 2006) and what others see as the flawed methods and questionable wisdom of aggregating ecosystem services values to larger scales ((Chaisson,…”
Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles (2008, background): “Declaring an ecological process ‘‘important’’ to the human condition is heavily subjective to spatial, temporal and even ethical considerations (McCauley, 2006; Srivastava and Vellend, 2005; Wallace, 2007) compelling researchers to clearly delimit the scale and intent of their study.”
Contesting the market-based nature of Mexico’s national payments for ecosystem services programs: Four sites of articulation and hybridization (2013, background): “The concept of ecosystem services is currently ubiquitous in the discursive practices of environmental organizations and policy makers (McCauley, 2006).”
Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales (2009, background): “Fears that a focus on ecosystem services will fail to help us achieve biodiversity conservation goals (eg Terborgh 1999; McCauley 2006) were not borne out in this case.”
Ecosystem Services: Origins, Contributions, Pitfalls, and Alternatives (2013, background): “, that nature has intrinsic value (Vedeld 1994), that the conservation of all biodiversity is an ethical imperative not really compatible with the anthropocentric language of services (McCauley 2006).”
Connecting SDG 14 with the other Sustainable Development Goals through marine spatial planning (2017, background): “Perhaps the most oft-raised criticism is the one rooted in the realm of environmental ethics, which assumes the existence of a conflict between, on the one hand, a ‘biocentric’ paradigm that gives precedence to the intrinsic values of nature, and, on the other, a ‘utilitarian’ (anthropocentric) para”
On the relation between ecosystem services, intrinsic value, existence value and economic valuation (2013, background): “Conservationists have not been convinced, however, and warn that increased public attention for nature's instrumental valuemay erode public attention for nature's intrinsic value (see e.g., Bowles, 2008; Kosoy and Corbera, 2010; McCaulay, 2006).”