Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales

By K. Bakker. 2005

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Subfields: Geography, Planning and Development, Ocean Engineering, Political Science and International Relations

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Payments for Ecosystem Services in Mexico: Nature, Neoliberalism, Social Movements, and the State (2010, background): “Commodification of ES in Mexico has not proceeded in orderly stages of transfers from public to private ownership (privatization), introduction of profit and efficiency norms and practices, and the offering of ES for sale (commercialization), followed by genuine market transactions (commoditization;”
Discovering Price in All the Wrong Places: The Work of Commodity Definition and Price under Neoliberal Environmental Policy (2007, background): “Bakker (2005), for example, provides an excellent taxonomy in the course”
Neoliberal Nature, Ecological Fixes, and the Pitfalls of Comparative Research (2009, result): “Castree's comments are in line with other recent critiques (see Bakker, 2005; Braun, 2008; Harris, 2009; Himley, 2008; Littlefield et al, 2008).”
Climate change and the transition to neoliberal environmental governance (2017, methodology): “…an approach to solving environmental problems through privatization, commercialization and commodi ﬁ cation of nat-ural resources and ecosystems (Bakker, 2005; 544), the erosion of state governance in favor of market mechanisms and public-private partnerships (Bakker, 2007), increased dominance…”
The Global Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus (2018, background): “From a social and environmental justice perspective, the idea that water is not treated as a “common good” but as a commodity has generated criticism around the perpetuation of inequality and violation of fundamental human rights (Bakker, 2005; Goldman, 2007; Swyngedouw et al., 2002).”
Payments for environmental services as neoliberal market-based forest conservation in Vietnam: Panacea or problem? (2012, background): “Such contradictory processes and ‘‘mutations’’ have been noted in other neoliberal projects elsewhere such as in fishing regulations (Mansfield, 2004), water privatization (Bakker, 2005), and land easements (Morris, 2008); these authors conclude that finding orthodox models of neoliberalism is thus ”
Pimping Climate Change: Richard Branson, Global Warming, and the Performance of Green Capitalism (2009, background): “Markets, privatization, commercialization, and outright commodification have become central elements (as opposed to the objects) of environmental regulation, evident not only in the prescriptions of neoliberal think tanks but also in those of a whole generation of environmental NGOs and government p”
The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, background): “2 Peck 2002), development (Hart 2002; Peet 2007), migration (Lawson 1999; Mitchell 2004), nature (Bakker 2005; McCarthy and Prudham 2004), race (Goldberg 2009; Haylett 2001), homelessness (Klodawsky 2009; May et al.”
Nature-based tourism and neoliberalism: concealing contradictions (2015, background): “…that current forms of capitalism are neoliberal because they are characterised by increasing involvement of private corporations in resource ownership, biotechnological innovation and the provision of ecosystem services (Bakker, 2005, 2010, p. 715; Brand & Gorg, 2008; Perelman, 2007, pp. 59 60).”
Theorising Transitional Pathways in Response to Climate Change: Technocentrism, Ecocentrism, and the Carbon Economy (2009, background): “…as sustainable development, critics of neoliberalism and ecological modernisation argue that their emphasis on markets, commodification, and competition ill equips them to deal effectively or equitably with social and environmental issues (Bakker, 2005; Heynen et al, 2007a; 2007b; Liverman, 2004).”
Green pretexts: Ecotourism, neoliberal conservation and land grabbing in Tayrona National Natural Park, Colombia (2012, background): “According to Bakker ( 2005 , 544), privatization processes ‘entail a change of ownership, or a handover of management, from the public to the private sector’.”
The New ‘Passive Revolution’ of the Green Economy and Growth Discourse: Maintaining the ‘Sustainable Development’ of Neoliberal Capitalism (2015, background): “…commodity of land or nature in regard to the increasing commodification, privatisation and marketisation of nature or the ‘neoliberalising of nature’ (Bakker 2005; Heynen and Robbins 2005; Castree 2008, 2010).8 The neoliberalisation of nature is about the free market ‘regulation of societal…”